There’s nowhere quite like it, not even Cambridge. Oxford colleges whose spires seemed to Matthew Arnold to dream, ancient hostelries like the Turf Tavern . . . Visit Oxford and you enter another dimension, a city which seems to belong more to the imagination than to any place or time on this earth.

In fact, there is much more to Oxford than a university, the Ashmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library and so on. The Blackbird Leys ward, for example, is reputedly among the ten per cent of most deprived areas in the country. But those drawn to the city by the magic of the spires that dream can be forgiven for preferring to spend their time in the quadrangles of the Oxford colleges and in such wonderful hostelries as the Turf Tavern.

Travel From London to Oxford

For those using the capital as a base, travel from London to Oxford could hardly be simpler – and, if booked well in advance, could hardly be cheaper. There are so many options that it would take an encyclopaedia to go into detail.

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