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
In 1209, an Oxford "clerk" (university student) accidentally killed a woman and fled the scene. The enraged townspeople, unable to find the perpetrator, dragged his three roommates to prison and then, upon the order of King John (who was in a dispute at the time with the Pope, and therefore the University), hanged all three clerks. Rioting ensued, and a large number of masters and students left, some to nearby Reading, others to Paris, but most of them to Cambridge, where they started a new university.