The back story
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The back story
Oxford: the back story
Dreaming spires, ancient colleges and great libraries, an hour from London by train.
Beyond London · about an hour by train
Oxford: Our Favourites
Christ Church, the Bodleian Libraries and the Radcliffe Camera, and the Ashmolean Museum, an hour from London by train.
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What to see
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Oxford’s grandest college
Christ Church, Oxford
The largest of Oxford’s colleges, founded by Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII, with its cathedral, Great Hall and Tom Quad.
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The heart of the university
The Bodleian Libraries and the Radcliffe Camera
Oxford University’s historic libraries around Radcliffe Square, including the Divinity School, Duke Humfrey’s Library and the domed Radcliffe Camera.
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Art and archaeology since 1683
The Ashmolean Museum
Oxford University’s museum of art and archaeology, founded in 1683, with collections from ancient Egypt to the Pre-Raphaelites.
Getting there
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About an hour by train
Getting to Oxford
Trains from Paddington or Marylebone take about an hour; coaches also run from Victoria.
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