Departure From: London 
This tour departs every Thursday GBP85
In a little over an hours time our journey to the University city of Oxford will be complete. Heading west over the Chiltern Hills we descend down to the Thames valley to this ‘city of dreaming spires’ and take a walking tour amongst the cloisters and quadrangles of Britain’s oldest University, founded in 1167. Ivy clad medieval college buildings compete for space with Georgian shops and ancient churches around busy streets which both ‘Town and Gown’ call home. Our guided walking tour will take you into the heart of this land of hallowed academia, to the Bodleian Library, to the Radcliffe Camera, Sheldonian Theatre and selected colleges.
Known the world over as the birthplace of the great poet William Shakespeare we, quite rightly, take you to the house where he was born and to Holy Trinity church where he was both baptised and buried. Many other centuries-old houses survive, some of these have associations with the writer. After a guided tour of the town and some free time we continue for a photo stop at Anne Hathaway’s cottage, a beautiful timber-framed thatched farmhouse that was Shakespeare’s wife’s childhood home before we finally continue on our journey south to London.
Price Includes:
• Fully guided lecture standard tour
• Guided walking tour of Oxford
• Visit to Burford and Bourton-on-the- Waterand to the charming twins of Upper and Lower Slaughter in the Cotswolds
• Guided tour of Stratford-upon-Avon
• All travel in comfortable purpose-built minibus from Central London
Departure Information :
08:00 From ISH, 229 Great Portland Street, London W1W 5PN
08:10 Outside Cumberland Hotel, Marble Arch
08:20 Outside Harrods, Knightsbridge
08:25 Outside Premier Inn, Knaresborough Place, Earls Court
This tour normally ends by 6pm
subject to availability & fare may change without prior notice
