Plan your trip to Oxford
Oxford useful information to help you plan your vacation
Oxford useful information to help you plan your vacation
How to get to Oxford, England, by car, coach, train, and airplane
Tourist information, guidebooks, maps, tips for niche groups (students, LGBT, seniors, disabled, etc.), and more
Keeping in touch while traveling—Cellphones and Skype, mail and roaming fees, and how to call to, from, and within the U.K.
From credit cards, cash, and ATMS to VAT refunds, travelers checks, and customs limits
All those boring but necessary travel details: passports, entry visas, trip insurance, health insurance, customs regulations, and all the other super-fun pre-trip preparations
When John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wasn't creating Middle Earth or imbibing with CS Lewis and the other Inklings, he held down a day job as an Oxford don. He had graduated Oxford's Exeter College in 1915 with first-class honours and, after World War I, had stints working on the letter "W' at the Oxford English Discitonary and serving as a reader at the University of Leeds. Tolkien returned to Oxford as a Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College, where he wrote The Hobbit and the first two books in The Lord of the Rings. He moved to Merton College as Professor of English Language and Literature in 1945, completing the Return of the King in 1948 and retiring in 1959.