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Panoramic view across Oxford’s historic centre
Oxford, properly discovered.

Make a day of it

Plan a great day.

A day on foot, lunch at the market or a college visit. Find a route for your time in Oxford, including when it rains.

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Bicycles beside a stone-lined street in warm sunlight

One excellent day

Oxford in one day

A relaxed walking day: Radcliffe Square, a Bodleian visit, Covered Market lunch, Christ Church Meadow and the Ashmolean.
The interior of Oxford Covered Market

A market morning

Meet you at the Covered Market

Breakfast at Brown’s, coffee in the lanes and independent shops to explore: make an Oxford market morning your own.
An Oxford college quadrangle seen through a stone arch

Beyond the skyline

Visit Oxford’s colleges

Find quadrangles, chapels and gardens to visit, with access details for 43 colleges and halls and a free exterior walk.
People carrying umbrellas across wet paving outside a columned museum building

Wet-weather Oxford

Oxford when it rains

Dinosaurs under glass, art at the Ashmolean and lunch beneath the market roof: an Oxford day worth keeping when it rains.

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