Oxford – Towns of Two Halves

Oxford

What to See
You’ll find accounts of Oxford’s tourist attractions at Experience Oxfordshire. For additional information plus shopping, eating out etc there’s Daily Info.

Oxford, punts, isis, thames, students — ‘Of course there are many other corners of the city to look at. What of those towpaths and riverside walks, where Morse and Lewis were constantly hauling bodies out of the water?’

Links to Oxford attractions include:
● Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology
● Bodleian Library
● Eagle & Child
● Harry Potter in Oxford
● Martyrs Memorial
● Medieval City Wall
● Modern Art Oxford
● Museum of the History of Science
● Oxford Castle & Prison
● Oxford Cathedral
● Oxford Covered Market
● Oxford University Museum of Natural History
● Oxford Walks
● Pitt Rivers Museum
● The Story Museum

‘If you’re intimidated by the thought of the massive brains shifting through the gears all around you, consider: some of the earliest students here believed the world was flat’

Towns of Two Halves extracts:
● “An institution devoted to science [Museum of the History of Science] is not so superior that it can find no place for 16th century charlatan Dr John Dee, who claimed to be in direct contact with angels.”
● “Many of its [The Pitt Rivers’] display cases look as though someone has recently returned from a distant and exotic car-boot sale and turned out the proceeds for an impromptu police inspection.”
● “This [the Eagle & Child] is famous as the pub where Tolkein, CS Lewis and others went for a drink, a smoke and a little light reading. I’m not sure how much fun Tolkein would have been over a pint.”
These are taken from the Oxford chapter of Towns of Two Halves, published in 2018. To buy a copy, email info@townsof2halves.co.uk.