7.30am Pick ups start in London Zone 1.
At time of booking please specify your requested pick up location (Your pick up will be between 7.30-8.00am)
(We will contact you the day prior to your tour to confirm your pick up time and location – please ensure we have a valid contact phone number/email address that you will have access to in London the day before)
-Enjoy the University City of Oxford before taking the back roads through the Cotswolds – an area of outstanding natural and man made beauty.
-We then make our way through The Cotswolds, visit Stow on the Wold, Buford and the charming Slaughters, inaccessible to large tourist coaches. We continue through Bourton on the Water and Moreton in the Marsh for the complete tour.
-We even include a delicious cream tea before returning to London!
-Approximate arrival back in Central London around 6.30pm
**Please note details are subject to changes**
Oxford
Well known as it is, Oxford never fails to impress even its most regular visitors with something different or something new. Oxford, The City of Dreaming Spires, is famous the world over for its University and place in history. For over 800 years, it has been a home to royalty and scholars, and since the 9th century an established town, although people are known to have lived in the area for thousands of years.
Nowadays, the city is a bustling cosmopolitan town. Still with its ancient University, but home also to a growing hi-tech community.
The University
Oxford is home to a world famous university, and most of the colleges and university buildings are located in the centre of Oxford, within easy walking distance of each other.
The University also owns the Ashmolean Museum on Beaumont Street, Britain's oldest public museum.
The centre of Oxford is dominated by the University colleges, the most famous being Christ Church, Trinity, and Balliol (from a total of thirty six).
The Cotswolds
The Cotswolds is an area of England about the size of greater Tokyo. Popular with both the English themselves and visitors from all over the world,the Cotswolds are well-known for gentle hillsides (‘wolds’), sleepy villages and for being so ‘typically English’.
There are famous cities such as Bath, well-known beautiful towns like Cheltenham and hundreds of delightful villages such as Burford and Castle Combe. Above all, the local honey-coloured limestone, used for everything from the stone floors in the houses to the tiles on the roof, has ensured that the area has a magical uniformity of architecture.
During the 13-15th centuries, the medieval period, the native Cotswold sheep were famous throughout Europe for their heavy fleeces and high quality of wool. Cotswold wool commanded a high price and the wealth generated by the wool trade enabled wealthy traders to leave their mark by building fine houses and wonderful churches, known as “wool churches”. Even today, the sight of sheep on the hillside is still
one of the classic Cotswold images. |
