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Explore our selection of private historical walking tours—or allow us to craft a bespoke experience to suit your interests.

Customised tours can add convenience and depth to your experience and opportunities to include additional services to enhance your visit to Oxford.

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Classic Architectural and Historical Highlights

Ideal for first time visitors to Oxford seeking an introduction to the history, architecture, literature and scholarship of the city.

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  • "Wonderful tour about Oxford, very knowledgeable guide. We enjoyed every minute of it."

    Maria, USA

  • “Jane our tour guide was fabulous. She was very knowledgeable and tried to cater for everyone in the group from the little kids to the older group members. She was factual, clear and interesting. I could have spent another two hours walking around with her. Well done and thanks for making our trip so interesting.”

  • “Excellent Enjoyable Enlightening.”

  • "Sophie is a superb, experienced and enriching guide. We are a retired US professional couple. We've hired individual local guides throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia, and Sophie tops our list! She spent hours with us in advance, curating our day in Oxford, then filled our tour with history, architecture, art, education, culture…and fun."

  • "The day was perfectly paced and suited to our needs. It was a graduation day, so like the happy students, we too tossed our hats in celebration. Brava Sophie!"

    K & A Krupsky, Chicago, USA

  • "Wonderful tour of Oxford. The history and architecture were nicely blended into the tour. The stories of the different colleges and buildings was excellent. Not to mention the aspects pertaining to Harry Potter and Alice in WonderLand. My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed the entire tour. Highly recommend!!"

    W Blaik, Arizona, USA

  • “For a tour of Oxford, I would highly recommend Jane as your tour guide! As a mom of six children ranging from infant to teen, I can assure you that Jane does a wonderful job keeping everyone engaged and inspired for the duration of the tour. Jane tailored our tour to fit our family's needs and our interests and thoughtfully answered any questions we asked. If you'd like to experience Oxford to the fullest, you'd do well to hire Jane to show you around!”

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