Oxford experiences
Oxford activities, tours, and other experiences to move your vacation beyond sightseeing
Oxford activities, tours, and other experiences to move your vacation beyond sightseeing
Oxford's ancient colleges inspired the look of Hogwarts—and the filmmakers even used locations around Oxford to recreate the wizarding school in the Harry Potter movies
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.