Accommodation in Oxford - Your guide to the best Hotels in Oxford
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Places to visit in Oxford
Oxford is renowned the world over, as the home of one of the oldest and most highly revered Universities in Europe. The city lies at the confluence of the Rivers Cherwell and Thames, or "Isis", as it is locally known, giving the opportunity for boating, punting and many pleasant riverside walks.
Oxford is a compact city; its main streets radiate from Carfax Tower in the centre, with most of the colleges and University buildings all within easy walking distance.
Museum of Oxford
Housed in the historic Town Hall, the Museum of Oxford tells the story of the city and the University using finds from local archaeological excavations including an outstanding Medieval collection.
The museum offers atmospheric room settings, replica college treasures, a rescued college barge, and the town's first charter of 1192, one the oldest in England, showing the "Ox" and the "Ford".
The exhibits range from a mammoth's tooth to a 'Morris Motor' car engine. Archaeological treasure include a preserved Roman pottery kiln and a whole pavement made of cattle bones. There are six Oxford rooms recreated inside the museum from an Elizabethan Inn to a Victorian kitchen.
Carfax Tower
Climb 99 steps to the top of the tower to get a bird's eye view of Oxford's "Dreaming Spires".
In 1818 St Martin's church was rebuilt complete with tower, however towards the end of the 19th century, mounting traffic problems necessitated road widening. The church, apart from it's tower, was demolished in 1896. The tower is all that remains today. On the east facade the church clock is adorned by two "quarter boys", who hit the bells at every "quarter" of the hour.
Cogges Manor Farm Museum
Come to Cogges to discover life in rural Oxfordshire in Victorian times. You step back in time when you enter the beautiful farmstead with its original Cotswold buildings. Parts of the manor house are over 700 years old; now you can see what life was like here 100 years ago.
In the kitchen you can sample home baking fresh from the 'Victorian maids' to find out about history of the house and the people who lived here.There's plenty to keep the children happy too, from building models to dressing up and playing with Victorian games.
Everyone will enjoy meeting the animals in the farm yard, discovering the agricultural displays and visting the walled Victorian Kitchen garden, before going on a riverside walk and exploring the fields beyond.
The cafeteria in the old milking parlour, provides sandwiches, light lunches, drinks, home-made cakes and ice creams. You can also visit the well-stocked shop to buy books, postcards, gifts, free-range eggs from the farm and the seasonal produce.
Museum of the History of Science
The Museum of the History of Science houses an unrivalled collection of historic scientific instruments in the world's oldest surviving purpose-built museum building - the Old Ashmolean on Broad Street, Oxford. By virtue of the collection and the building, the Museum occupies a special position, both in the study of the history of science and in the development of western culture and collecting.
The present collection of the Museum preserves the material relics of past science. As a department of the University of Oxford, the Museum has a role both in making these relics available for study by historians who are willing to look beyond the traditional confines of books and manuscripts as well as presenting them to the visiting public.
The objects represented - of which there are approximately 10,000 - cover almost all aspects of the history of science, from antiquity to the early twentieth century.
Particular strengths include the collections of astrolabes, sundials, quadrants, early mathematical instruments generally (including those used for surveying, drawing, calculating, astronomy and navigation) and optical instruments (including microscopes, telescopes and cameras), together with apparatus associated with chemistry, natural philosophy and medicine.
In addition, the Museum possesses a unique reference library for the study of the history of scientific instruments that includes manuscripts, incunabula, prints, printed ephemera and early photographic material.
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