Partners & Recommendations

Our tours can include options from receptions in University buildings, a cream tea cruise or a Bentley motor car to cruise around the Cotswolds.

Our Top Recommendations in Oxford

  • Cream Teas

    High tea includes a glass of bubbly but all cream teas include finger sandwiches, scones and petit fours.

    Our two favourites are:

  • Restaurants

    The parsonage pops up again as a favourite restaurant. It has fabulous indoor and outdoor spaces. The inside dining room has a fine collection of artwork on the walls. I love it.

    For lovely linen and a sense of occasion I also recommend:

    There are lots of other great eateries in Oxford. Pubs of course, ethnic food and even a great fish restaurant. I won’t mention them all here.

    Enquire or keep an eye on the Blog.

  • Transport

    Catch the open top bus from outside the station and have a one hour ride around Oxford’s sites as part of your day. You may even get a live guide.

    It’s a really great way to get right up close to some of the gargoyles and other decorative features of Oxford’s architecture.

Partners

  • Photographic credits

    Thanks to Stuart Bebb photography for Balliol pictures- https://www.oxfordcamera.com/home

    Thanks to David Fisher and John Cairns for photographs of The Queen’s College

    Thanks to Martyn Sené for photographs Beating of the Bounds, May 2024

    Freepix.com

    Blenheim photo by Michael Richardson on Unsplash

  • Illustration

    Oxford History Shop illustration

    Thanks to Norm Chung

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