Oxford Official Walking Tours have relaunched a series of walking tours around the city, increasing their range and frequency throughout this summer.
For fans of some of Oxford’s most seminal academics the C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien Tour provides an opportunity to explore the central Oxford locations where they lived and taught while discussing their work. Lovers of “His Dark Materials” and “The Book of Dust” trilogies can discover Lyra’s Oxford on the Philip Pullman’s Oxford Tour which has been endorsed by the author.
The Inspector Morse, Lewis, and Endeavour Tour shows visitors what skilful use TV producers have made of Oxford and its pubs, and the ever-popular world of Harry Potter can be brought to life on the Harry Potter Highlights bespoke tour.
Annie Macdonald, Tour Desk Group Leader at Experience Oxfordshire explained, “Oxford University and City Tour is our award winning and most popular tour. We help visitors get behind the stonework of these magnificent institutions by sharing historical facts, but in addition painting a picture of the times, through anecdotes and quirky stories about those who worked and lived here. As we walk through time, we not only point out the gargoyles above us, but also the secret passageways and hidden tunnels below!”
Hayley Beer-Gamage, Chief Executive at Experience Oxfordshire added, “Oxford Official Walking Tours offer a great visitor experience and is the perfect way to make the most of a visit to the city providing an excellent introduction to a stay, however long.
“As visitors return to Oxford, we’re delighted to again be increasing our tours programme. Our guides are friendly, confident communicators who love the history of Oxford and can bring it to life with stories of real people in the city and the University. It is important as we work through post pandemic recovery that we offer an outstanding visitor welcome and our 5-star TripAdvisor reviews prove the tours are doing just that. We will continue to develop our tours programme and look forward to welcoming visitors back throughout 2022 and beyond.”
Oxford Official Walking Tours aim to provide positive experiences for residents and visitors and as such tours are limited to a maximum of 20 people per group. Guides can explain the collegiate aspect of the University, with its tutorial systems, concepts that are unfamiliar to some of our visitors. Oxford Official Walking Tours also offer a range of private tours on request both in the city and across the county in locations such as Burford and Woodstock.
