Oxford

Christ Church College

Landmark · Henry VIII's college, with Oxford's largest quadrangle and a cathedral that doubles as its chapel.

Bodleian Library

Landmark · Oxford's great university library, whose Divinity School and Duke Humfrey's Library starred as Hogwarts.

Ashmolean Museum

Museum · Britain's first public museum holds Egyptian and Greek antiquities and Old Master drawings under one roof.

Radcliffe Camera

Landmark · Oxford's round, domed Bodleian reading room, best seen from the outside in Radcliffe Square.

Oxford Castle and Prison

Castle · A Norman castle site and Victorian prison where visitors climb a Saxon tower, descend into a crypt and step inside the cells.

Sheldonian Theatre

Landmark · Christopher Wren's first major building, a ceremonial hall with a cupola that looks out over central Oxford.

Pitt Rivers Museum

Museum · A packed Victorian-style museum of world cultures, entered through the Natural History Museum and free to visit.

University Church of St Mary the Virgin

Church · Oxford's university church, whose medieval tower can be climbed for a view over Radcliffe Square.

Oxford Natural History Museum

Museum · A Victorian glass-roofed hall on iron pillars, with natural history collections and the only known soft-tissue remains of a dodo.

Botanic Garden Oxford

Garden · Britain's oldest botanic garden, with more than 5,000 plant species on the bank of the River Cherwell.

Wolvercote Cemetery

Landmark · A Victorian cemetery on Oxford's northern edge where J.R.R. Tolkien and Isaiah Berlin are buried.

Port Meadow

Nature · An ancient grazing meadow beside the Thames, still grazed by horses and cattle, with Bronze Age barrows and wild swimming in summer.

Covered Market

Market · A covered market of butchers, bakers and food stalls off the High Street, trading since 1774.

Christ Church Meadow

Nature · A triangle of riverside meadow between the Thames and the Cherwell, grazed by cattle in the middle of the city.