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WALKING
TOURS
Friday 3 April
Saturday 4 April
Walking Tour
- Literary Oxford
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Walking Tour
- Literary Oxford
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With Alastair Lack
With Alastair Lack
2-4pm / Meet at the entrance to Magdalen College,
High Street / £15.00
Explore Oxford Colleges in the footsteps of famous
writers and poets. Start at Magdalen, home to
John Betjeman and C.S.Lewis, and walk through
University College and Queen’s, ending up at Merton,
the College of Max Beerbohm and T.S. Eliot. On the
way enjoy readings from the poetry and prose of
writers who have lived in and written about the city
and the University.
2-4pm / Meet at entrance to Magdalen College,
High Street / £15.00
Explore Oxford Colleges in the footsteps of famous
writers and poets. Start at Magdalen, home to
John Betjeman and C.S.Lewis, and walk through
University College and Queen’s, ending up at
Merton, the College of Max Beerbohm and T.S.
Eliot. On the way enjoy readings from the poetry
and prose of writers who have lived in and written
about the city and the University.
Saturday 4 April
Christ Church ‘bumps,
punts, and jumps’ Walk
757
Saturday 4 April
Keats’s ‘Eyelashes’:
An Oxford Riverside Walk
756
With Mark Davies
3pm / 1 hour 15 mins / Meet at the entrance to
Meadow Buildings, Christ Church / £10.00
A gentle walk of about a mile along Christ Church
Meadow’s river borders, taking in the literature of
the rivers Thames and Cherwell. The tour includes
free admission to Oxford’s historic Botanic Gardens,
where participants can spend time at their leisure
at the end. This new walk for 2009 is led by local
historian, author, and publisher Mark Davies. The
route is flat and suitable for wheelchair users.
With Mark Davies
10am / 2 hours 15 mins / Meet at the entrance
to Meadow Buildings, Christ Church / £15.00
A two-mile circular tour of the Thames and its
backwaters in the footsteps of novelists, diarists, poets,
and travellers. Citing numerous authors of past and
present, the enduring importance of Oxford’s waterways
is explained by local historian, author, and publisher
Mark Davies. The route is generally flat, but with
some steps.
Complimentary drink at Aziz Pandesia, Folly
Bridge (5 minutes’ walk from Christ Church)
at the end of the walk.
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Sunday 5 April
Christ Church ‘bumps,
punts, and jumps’ Walk
With Mark Davies
846
12 noon / 1 hour 15 mins / Meet at the entrance to
Meadow Buildings, Christ Church / £10.00
A gentle walk of about a mile along Christ Church
Meadow’s river borders, taking in the literature of
the rivers Thames and Cherwell. The tour includes
free admission to Oxford’s historic Botanic Gardens,
where participants can spend time at their leisure
at the end. This new walk for 2009 is led by local
historian, author, and publisher Mark Davies. The
route is flat and suitable for wheelchair users.