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Oxford Castle & City Walking Tour
This walk covers some of the fascinating, and historic places that Oxford has to offer, other than the University including the Castle, Museums and Pubs. This walk is great to broaden your knowledge and appreciation for this beautiful city. Happy sightseeing.
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Each walk delivers a unique and fascinating user experience. Through Tourist Walks’ self guided tour application you can explore the hidden gems created by local experts. For people wanting to explore the neighbourhood and experience the local culture, we provide a unique experience of exploring the city using GPS guided audio tours. The App is FREE, and all the walk summaries are FREE, each walk is individually priced and you can buy all the walks for a city at a discounted price.
Full Audio Visual Commentary
Tourist Walks is an application that can give you the freedom to explore the famous walks at your own discretion. We have created a full audio-visual self-guided experience that gives you the confidence to explore and discover the stories of various cities on your own.
Visit the Best Tourist Sites & Explore Them
Get a list of all the tourist sites you can visit. The Tourist Walks application will guide you to your next destination because every journey starts with a single step.
GPS and Multilingual Audio and Text Guidance
Even if you don’t understand the local language of the city you are visiting, Don’t worry. Audio guided walks have multilingual text assistance that will guide you in your native language.
Start/Stop/Rewind
/Restart Go at Your Own Pace
Tourist Walks’ audios are narrated by professionals who will keep you entertained while you are walking your way to the next destination. We help you discover the city around you in a more impressive way.
Download the Walk App & Use Offline. No Mobile Data Required.
It is always frustrating when you wish to travel somewhere but your mobile phone service is out-of-order. Don’t worry! Tourist Walks comes with an offline version of built-in maps you might need, even without internet access.
Oxford Castle & City Walking Tour
- Tour Name - Oxford Castle and City
- Tour Location - Oxford
- No. of Attractions - #18
- Tour Starting Point - Oxford Castle
- Tour Ending Point - St Michael at the North Gate
Find our Oxford Castle & City Walking Tour highlights below
Oxford Castle
The original castle was built on this site in the 11th Century by Robert D’Oyly who was appointed High Sheriff of Oxfordshire by William the Conqueror shortly after the Norman invasion. It was originally surrounded by a moat. The small hill is called the “Motte”. On the hill stood the main residence of the castle, known as the “Baille”. The large tower is St George’s Tower and is the only remaining building of the original castle. It played a major role in the war between Stephen and Matilda who were fighting over the right to the English throne. Queen Matilda, the daughter of Henry 1was besieged in the castle by her cousin Stephen. On one snowy night she descended from the tower and ran across the snow camouflaged in a white cloak. Find out more on our tour.
St Peters College
St Peters College occupies the site of two of the university’s medieval halls, dating back to at least the 14th century. This college was founded in the 20th Century by the Bishop of Liverpool. He wanted a college where promising students, who might otherwise be deterred by the costs of college life, could obtain an Oxford education. St Peter’s has a varied set of buildings, many of them much older than the college itself. Find out more on our tour.
The History Faculty
This attractive building was formerly Oxford’s Boys School founded in 1881. Ex- students include the famous comedian Ronnie Barker and “The Great Egg Race” scientist Heinz Wolff. Find out more on our tour.
Gloucester Green
Gloucester Green got its name from being close to Gloucester College and it was once used as a bowling green. During the English Civil War Royalist troops drilled here and there were even a few soldiers hanged for various offences from a nearby tree. In the 18th and 19th centuries the Oxford annual fair was held here as well as cattle markets for a time. Find out more on our tour
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The Burton Taylor Rooms
The famous actor Richard Burton actually studied briefly at Exeter College during his RAF training in 1944 and promised to return. In 1966 he came back with his actress wife Elizabeth Taylor for a critically acclaimed performance of Doctor Faustus. The actors donated most of the money generated to the Oxford Playhouse nearby. This tiny 50 seat theatre, primarily used for student productions, was named in their honour. Find out more on our tour.
The Ashmolean Museum
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology is the world’s second university museum and Britain’s first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University of Oxford in 1677. Originally it was on Broad Street until 1845 when the museum was brought to this site. The original collection included antique coins, books, engravings, geological specimens, and zoological specimens—one of which was the stuffed body of the last dodo ever seen in Europe; but by 1755 the stuffed dodo was so moth-eaten that it was destroyed, except for its head and one claw. Today it contains huge collections of archaeological specimens and fine art. Find out more on our tour.
The Martyrs Monument
The Martyrs Memorial built in 1841 in honour of Oxford’s three protestant martyrs. Bishops Latimer and Ridley, and the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Latimer were burnt at the stake near here in Broad Street in the 16th Century by Mary I, who became known as Bloody Mary. Their crime was to be part of the English Reformation and in particular helping her father Henry VIII to divorce her mother Catherine of Aragon. It was funded by public subscription. Find out more on our tour.
It was here Tolkien and CS Lewis and other members of the “Inklings” literary group famously met every week to drink beer and chat about their work. Inside at the end of the bar on the wall to the left there are several mementoes of this group, including a letter signed by all of them with their full University titles advising the landlord that they had drunk here to his good health. Find out more on our tour
The Eagle and Child
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The Lamb and Flag Pub
The name comes from the symbol for St John the Baptist the patron Saint of Merchant Tailors. It is owned by St Johns College next door which was founded by a merchant tailor. If you go in to the pub you will find information about the pub’s connections to the entertainment world including the television programme Inspector Morse. Find out more on our tour.
Museum of Natural History
This building, built in the 19th Century, brought together all Oxford University’s collection of anatomical and natural history specimens which were previously spread around the city. The building is a treasure in itself and it was built from the proceeds of Bible sales to the American Mid-West. There is an Alice in Wonderland exhibition and live tarantulas on display as well as the dinosaurs and huge slabs of minerals and a petrified tree stump. There are also “touchable” specimens for children. The museum is definitely worth a visit if you have time. Find out more on our tour.
The Kings Arms Pub
The Kings Arms Pub was once the place where the corpses of paupers were brought to be checked by a lawyer for foul play. Afterwards the bodies would be dissected in the basement of the Ashmolean. These bodies were “donated” to science in return for a Christian burial afterwards, paid for by the University. Find out more on our tour.
Museum of the History of Science
The building the museum inhabits was once the home of the Ashmolean Museum and the basement was where bodies were dissected to further medical science. The Professor of Anatomy had the right to the bodies of prisoners hanged within 21 miles of Oxford. Exhibits include the largest collection of astrolabes in the world and some beautiful microscopes. There is a blackboard written on by Albert Einstein and camera equipment belonging to Lawrence of Arabia, and Lewis Carroll the author of Alice in Wonderland. Find out more on our tour.
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St Michael at the North Gate Church
Its name is derived from the church’s location on the site of the north gate of Oxford when it was surrounded by a city wall. Originally built between 1000AD and 1050 AD, the tower from 1040 AD is the one you see today and is Anglo-Saxon. The church is Oxford’s oldest building. Find out more on our walk.
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Frequently Asked Questions
No. After the walks have been downloaded, for which you need an internet connection, no mobile data is required to do the walks.
No you can pause and resume at any point within the walk. Whether you need a coffee or a comfort break the walks are entirely flexible.
Yes you will receive both verbal guidance and a GPS enabled map to take you around each of the points of interest on the walks.
No the walks are circular so you will receive multiple options of where to start each walk.
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