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Address	Oxford \| See on map
How to get there	Direct journeys from London Paddington with First Great Western rail take approximately one hour. If you book at least a week in advance, fares can cost as low as £8. Standard off-peak returns are £20, whilst anytime fares are £46.80. The Oxford tube is a coach which runs between London and Oxford every ten minutes, 24 hours a day. The journey starts outside Victoria Station, takes approximately 1 hour 40 minutes and costs £16 return.

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Direct journeys from London Paddington with First Great Western rail take approximately one hour. If you book at least a week in advance, fares can cost as low as £8. Standard off-peak returns are £20, whilst anytime fares are £46.80.
The Oxford tube is a coach which runs between London and Oxford every ten minutes, 24 hours a day. The journey starts outside Victoria Station, takes approximately 1 hour 40 minutes and costs £16 return.

Known as ‘the city of the dreaming spires’ due to the famous University’s undulating golden-stone architecture, Oxford is a bit of a fantasist’s dream. Its beautiful riverside location, charming local shopkeeps (including the real Alice from Lewis Carroll’s novels) and restaurants, combined with a serious historical pedigree, make this one of Britain’s prettiest Heritage Cities. Check out the gothically grand Bodleian Library, Sir Christopher Wren’s Sheldonian Theatre, and the cathedral at the university’s grandest college – Christ Church. Foodies should stop by The Grand Café on the site of England’s first coffee house, book early for Inspector Morse’s favourite, The Trout, or have a drink in Oscar Wilde’s old haunt, The Old Parsonage Hotel. And lest we forget, the scholars here may be some of the brightest minds, but they’re still students; so there’s plenty of nightlife to choose from too.