0 Popular Packege(s)
Area 45.59 Square Kilometers
Population 0.15 Million
Winter Temperature 3 C
Summer Temperature 15 C
Best Time To Visit June to August
London Heathrow International Airport and Gatwick Airport are well connected to Oxford. Heathrow is the closest international airport to Oxford.
A direct service operates between Oxford and London Paddington and between Oxford and Birmingham New Street. Other services operate from the north via Birmingham New Street and from the west via Didcot or Reading.
The Bodleian is a working library which forms part of the University of Oxford. As the largest university library in the UK, and one of five legal deposit libraries, the Library holds millions of printed items as well as manuscripts. In its reading rooms, generations of famous scholars have studied through the ages. Among them, five kings, 40 Nobel Prize winners, 26 prime ministers and writers are included. You can explore the quadrangles of these magnificent structures which have intricate painted and carved ceilings.
The Pitt Rivers Museum is a museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. The Museum displays archaeological and ethnographic objects from all parts of the world. There are more than half a million objects on display. Today the Museum is an active teaching department of the University of Oxford. It also continues to collect through donations, bequests, special purchases and through its students, in the course of their fieldwork.
The Sheldonian Theatre, an exquisite Grade I listed building situated in Oxfordâs city centre, is the official ceremonial hall of the University of Oxford. Some of the ceremonial activities that take place in the Theatre include matriculation, graduation ceremonies, Encaenia and Congregation. The Theatre is open to the public to visit when not in use.
The circular dome and drum of the Radcliffe Camera provides one of Oxford's most iconic sights, and is a distinctive landmark in a city full of distinctive landmarks. Originally the library in the Radcliffe Camera held both scientific and general books, but those collections were gradually moved to other University libraries, so that today the Camera functions as the main reading room of the Bodleian Library. The finished building holds some 600,000 books in underground rooms beneath Radcliffe Square.
University of Oxford Botanic Garden is an historic botanic garden in Oxford and is the oldest botanic garden in Great Britain. The Botanic Garden has the most compact, yet diverse collection of plants in the World right in the heart of the city centre and is open throughout the year for you to visit and enjoy.
The High Street, in the centre of Oxford, is one of Oxford's greatest streets. A vibrant, slightly curved street that is host to a number of Oxford's finest restaurants, jewellers, fashion outlets, antique dealers, the famous Oxford University shop and St Maryâs church. Oxford Antiques Centre, Oxford University Press Shop, Nealâs Yard Remedies, Rowell of Oxford Ltd are some shops to be mentioned.
It is a thriving, bustling, quirky and colourful epicentre for some of Oxfordâs finest independent traders. There are a large number of nationally recognised shops together with Bars, Caféâs, Clubs, the famous Covered market.
The Cake Shop, based in Oxfordshire, specialises in designing and creating celebration cakes for all occasions including wedding cakes, birthday cakes, christening cakes and cakes for corporate events. An extensive range of flavours and fillings are offered in the wedding range cakes which are renowned everywhere.
1 - 2 Chapel Way, Oxford OX2 9LS, England
Cuisines: French, Indian
237 Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1XG, England
Cuisines: Indian, Pub, Nepalese
209 Cowley Road, Oxford, Oxford OX41XF, England
Cuisines: Indian, Tibetan, Nepalese