North Oxford Colleges Walking Tour

Explore Oxford outside the hustle and bustle of the centre. Discover colleges with boat houses, sculpture gardens and even library cats, each with their own distinct personality and style.

How to use this Tour Guide

The total walking time of this tour is around 1 hour 10 minutes through University Parks and streets full of local businesses.

Why not customise your tour? Colleges often welcome visitors to have a look around, so you could take a tour of a couple of the colleges along your journey. Stop for lunch or to take in the local shops, or you could try the route backwards.

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Graphic made up of images of 8 Oxford colleges, each with their own unique architecture

Featured Colleges

A sandstone building at Wadham College, standing in a traditional quadrangle with grass in the centre

Wadham College

An abstract sculpture stands outside a 1960s modernist building with many windows, surrounded by green grass and trees

St Catherine's College

A view of LMH's Talbot building through the hanging green and white branches of a wisteria plant

Lady Margaret Hall

A red brick building with many windows, and in the foreground bright coloured tulips flower in a garden

St Hugh's College

A modern sandstone building standing in front of a green quad of grass

St Anne's College

Red brick buildings surrounded by trees and grass

Somerville

Students sitting on the grass outside some tall red brick buildings

Keble College

A sandstone clock tower with blue skies in the background

Mansfield College

A woman in a bright blue t-shirt gives a talk to a room full of students

Any questions?

If you have any questions about the tour, or about LMH and Oxford, please get in touch with our Outreach team.

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