Guide to England
Must See England
- Brighton Royal Pavilion
- Canterbury Cathedral
- Durham
- Highgate Cemetery
- Isles of Scilly
- Lake District
- New Forest
- Northumberland
- Oxford
- Richmond Castle
- Roman Baths Museum
- Shakespeare's Globe
- Shropshire
- Stonehenge
- Tate Modern
- The Cotswolds
- Westminster Abbey
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
Places in England
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Internationally renowned yet incredibly insular, Oxford is a city of remarkable beauty and stunning contrast. Birthplace of Mensa and the Morris Minor, home to the academic elite and the working-class majority, Oxford is a living museum, its beautiful buildings oozing charm and a distinguished past.
You can lose yourself in the winding lanes and alleys that crisscross the city, many of them unchanged since the time of Auden, Wilde and Tolkien. If the camera-wielding tourists get too much, step inside the college walls and feel the studious calm descend on the ivy-clad quads and ornate doorways.
Back in the real world, Oxford is not just the turf of toffs and boffs: it was a major car-manufacturing centre until the terminal decline of the British car industry and is now a thriving hub of service industries. The pick of the colleges are Christ Church, Merton and Magdalen, but nearly all of them are drenched in atmosphere, history, privilege and tradition. But don't kid yourself: you wouldn't have studied any harder in such august surroundings!