Hotels and Travel

Destination - Oxford

Oxford has been used as a location in many films, including: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Two shopping centres,cafes, theatres and cinemas, sports facilities and a choice of luxury hotels are to be found in Oxford.  Some of these Oxford hotels include the Malmaison Oxford, Randolph Hotel and the Eastgate Hotel.

Oxford is renowned as one of England's two great university towns, steeped in history and tradition.
Today the university accounts for almost 15,000 of Oxford's 115,000 population.
The university is not a campus but a collection of 36 colleges and 5 halls scattered around the city centre alongside the shops and offices of commercial Oxford. Local customs and traditions include the May Morning (May Day) when choristers sing madrigals from the top of Magdalen College Tower from 6.00am. Another custom is the rounding up of horses and cattle on Port Meadow once a year - this is to ensure that only those belonging to freemen of the city are benefiting from grazing rights there which are controlled by the Sheriff of Oxford. The Sheriff's Races are held on nearby Wolvercote Common annually in July. During spring and summer, Morris Dancers put on displays in and around the public houses in the city. Oxford is famous for its bookshops - Blackwell's, Thornton's, Parker's and Dillon's are superb places to browse.

And when it comes to refreshments, many of the city's fascinating pubs are open all day and serve light meals as well as a good range of ales. Oxford is famous for its bookshops - Blackwell's, Thornton's, Parker's and Dillon's are superb places to browse.

Oxford is a lively cultural centre and offers a wide variety of performing arts featuring distinguished artists. Music at Oxford presents concerts in historic settings such as the Sheldonian Theatre, Christ Church Cathedral and the Holywell Music Room. The City of Oxford Orchestra offers Summer Proms and a programme of 'Beautiful Music in Beautiful Places'. Opera, ballet, pantomime, musicals and major concerts are all in the programme at the Apollo Theatre, and the Oxford Playhouse has Shakespeare, modern drama, comedy and musicals in its programme.

The streets, houses, colleges, churches and chapels of Oxford represent a carefully documented catalogue of English history. The centre of the city has 900 buildings of architectural or historic interest. The Carfax Tower is all that remains of the 14th century church of St. Martin: it offers a splendid view of the dreaming spires of Oxford..

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 of course St Mary’s church. There are a number of small cobbled streets and alleyways that are evidence of hundreds of years of development and building along this street with a number of these alleys still cobbled and untouched for hundreds of years.  The buildings are much older than they look and some of the architecture is simply stunning.

The Covered Market is a wonderful, unique experience in the town centre of Oxford. A thriving, bustling, quirky and colourful epicentre for some of Oxford’s finest independent traders. Fashion boutiques with a difference that are colourful and individual, fresh food suppliers ranging from quality fruit and vegetables through to conventional and organic meat outlets that would put the larger national chain suppliers to shame in both quality and service. A number of warm and cosy café’s, food houses and delicatessens that add to the ambience and provide a tempting whiff for the senses. The market has five entrances- Cornmarket Street through the Golden Cross, Two on the High Street and two on Market Street. All in all a 232 year old market place that is as wonderful and original today as it was when it was opened on November 1st 1774.
Why not take a boat on the river, even a punt if you want to try your hand!

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