Oxford Official Walking Tours

Our Official University and City tour has Visit Britain accreditation and the group sizes are limited to 20 people.

Tours are led by a specialist official Guide who will ensure that you can enjoy a relaxing and informative visit.

See all of the University’s most famous buildings from the outside: the Radcliffe Camera, Bridge of Sighs, Sheldonian Theatre and the Bodleian Library.

• Our 10.30am Tour will include a college visit where ever possible
• Our 1pm tour will include a visit to Jesus College (subject to availability)
• All Colleges reserve the right to close on the day for University business.

Explore Oxford as the setting for famous fictional characters such as Harry Potter, Alice in Wonderland and Inspector Morse and enjoy stories about real-life characters who’ve lived here.

This award-winning 2-hour tour offers an excellent opportunity to explore this City famous for its Dreaming Spires!

Learn about Oxford’s most famous ghosts…soak up the atmosphere!

Based on the Book Haunted Oxford by local historian and one of our Guides, Rob Walters.

Hear the well-known spookiest tales from around the historic city of Oxford:

“From heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, manifestations and related supernatural phenomena to stories about first-hand encounters with ghouls and spirits”

Learn about Oxford’s most famous ghosts…soak up the atmosphere…

Not really suitable for Under 10's - this is a 2-hour tour and in winter, it's after dark!

Your expert spooky Guide will be waiting for you at the Meeting Point - please don't be late or he will have disappeared without being contactable…

Take a fun look at all the Oxford locations for these popular TV detective series. Hugely entertaining even if you haven’t seen all the episodes. A lovely way to look round Oxford and get glimpses into the old world of academia, as described in Colin Dexter’s novels. See all the iconic university buildings, the Radcliffe Camera, Bodleian Libraries – all centuries old!

Your guide will show you down the cobbled lanes and alleyways where the old pubs (frequented by Morse) can be found and visited after your tour!

For all fans of the most well-known writers in the Oxford literary group known as The Inklings, this is the specialist walking tour to take! Now famous worldwide, the work of these seminal authors is explored in this 2-hour tour, along with the Central Oxford locations where they lived, taught and worked.

The works of C.S. Lewis have inspired many religious thinkers since and his Narnia series of books have delighted generations of children. J.R.R. Tolkien’s books, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, have been made into blockbuster films.

Our award winning service comes highly commended.

Explore Oxford’s history with your own Private Guide. We can arrange a personalised, tailor-made tour based on your interests for individuals, small groups of friends, families and larger groups. Our award winning service comes highly commended.

Your Guide can take up to 20 people per group, and you can book more than one Guide for larger groups.

Family Groups and particularly Large Groups are best advised to make a comfort stop before arriving into Oxford as there are no facilities at the designated Coach Drop Off Points, and only limited facilities in the City Centre.

Rediscover the world of His Dark Materials and explore the setting of the new The Book of Dust series with a walk around Philip Pullman’s Oxford, led by a professional Guide.

Rediscover the world of His Dark Materials and explore the setting of the new The Book of Dust series with a walk around Philip Pullman’s Oxford, led by a professional guide. This 2-hour tour, endorsed by the author himself, provides a fascinating insight into the stories and places that inspired his world-renowned books.

This tour will show you from the outside many of the key locations from Lyra’s Oxford and La Belle Sauvage and will provide a fascinating insight into the stories and places that inspired the world-renowned books.