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e It will take you approximately 90 minutes to take the full walking tour and listen to all the tracks along the route. Alternatively, you can pick any particular tracks that you would like to listen to and choose your own route. The six undergraduate colleges included have been chosen because they are near the other stops on this route – they are not specifically colleges for history. No colleges specialise in any particular subject, and most colleges offer most courses. To see around the grounds of a college please visit the porter’s lodge (reception) at that college, and ask if you can have a look around. Most colleges have specific opening times during the day so please check their individual websites or ask in the Admissions Information Centre on Little Clarendon Street. Central Oxford is relatively flat but there are several cobbled streets, steps and narrow pavements, as well as other pedestrians and traffic. Please be careful, especially when crossing roads, and take extra care to look out for bicycles. We recommend that you don’t listen to the tour while you are walking: the tracks are designed for you to listen to when you arrive at each location.

We have attempted to make both the route and the information on this tour as accessible as possible. If you require the guide in an alternative format please contact the Admissions Information Centre. We will be glad to help with any Merton Street (see 11) queries about specific accessibility requests. 1 2 How to use & navigate the tour sharp bend in the road. Stop outside Corpus Christi left & stop at the entrance to Hertford College on the These introductory tracks explain how to use the tour College, immediately on your right. left hand side of the road. and how to safely navigate your way around the city 9 17 of Oxford. It is recommended to listen to these first Corpus Christi College Hertford College two tracks before you set off so that you can plan Founded: 1517 Number of undergraduates: 251 Founded: 1282 Number of undergraduates: 398 your visit and consider whether you will have time for Listen to this track outside the Listen to this track outside the main entrance to the the full walking tour. entrance to the college. After college. After you have listened to this track, continue This tour starts at Oxford Railway Station. From the leaving Corpus Christi, continue along Catte Street until you reach Radcliffe Square. down the right hand side of front of the station, cross the zebra crossings (with 18 Radcliffe Camera the bronze sculpture of an ox ahead) and turn right. Merton Street until you reach Stop at a safe place in Radcliffe Square to listen to this Cross Hythe Bridge Street and Park End Street using Merton College to your right. track about the famous circular, domed Radcliffe Camera pedestrian crossing, and then turn left. Make your 10 Merton College in the centre. After listening to this track, walk clockwise way up the right hand side of Park End Street until you Founded: 1264 Number of undergraduates: 314 around Radcliffe Square until you reach the main entrance reach New Road. Continue up New Road and stop just Listen to this track outside Merton College; you should to Brasenose College at the far side of the Square. Please before you reach the large grassy mound to your right be able to spot the College’s gatehouse tower at the be aware that most of Radcliffe Square is cobbled, to listen to the next track. entrance. Cross the street, taking care on the cobbles to although there is paving around the perimeter. 3 What is a College? listen to the next track. 19 Brasenose College This track explains how the collegiate system works. 11 Merton Street Founded: 1509 Number of undergraduates: 367 The Blue Route takes you past six colleges to Stop & listen to this track looking ahead at Merton Listen to the Brasenose College demonstrate how the University is spread across the Street. This track will give you a brief history of this track at the main entrance. Continue city. All of the colleges have many more similarities beautiful unspoiled street. Keep walking along Merton around Radcliffe Square until you than differences. Keep walking ahead past the grassy Street to reach the next stop. reach Catte Street & Hertford mound until you reach the entrance to the Oxford College once again. Return along Castle, you should be able to see a sign on your right. 12 Student Life Catte Street, & stop opposite the Listen to this track outside the Examination Schools 4 Castle & Mound Bridge of Sighs, in front of the iron gates leading to the gates which gives you the opportunity to listen to an This track gives a brief history of Old Bodleian Library & the Sheldonian Theatre. Earth Sciences student’s perspective on life at Oxford Castle and the old prison. University College Oxford. Continue down Merton 20 Bodleian & Sheldonian From the Castle and Mound, Street until you reach the High Street. Turn right down The Sheldonian Theatre is the building straight ahead continue up New Road. Cross at the High Street until you reach the pedestrian of you, whilst the Bodleian is to your left. Stop inside the zebra crossing and make your crossing, & then cross the road & turn left back up the the gravel area outside the Library & Theatre whilst way up Queen Street, stopping at street. Turn right into Queens Lane, & make your way listening to this track. Continue along Catte Street & Bonn Square on the left. to the entrance to St Edmund Hall on the right. turn left onto Broad Street. 5 College life 13 St Edmund Hall 21 Interviews To listen to this track, you can sit on one of the Founded: c.1278 Number of undergraduates: 405 Follow Broad Street until you cross Turl Street, & benches in Bonn Square (please note, there are no Listen to this track outside the main entrance, or then find somewhere safe to stop & listen to this more benches until Stop 20). The track will give you enquire at the porter’s lodge about visiting. On leaving track. This track will help you to understand the an overview of the facilities you can expect to find in St Edmund Hall, continue down Queens Lane. interview process at Oxford. any of Oxford’s 30 undergraduate colleges. After listening to this track, continue down Broad From Bonn Square, make your way up Queen Street 14 How to make an application Street until you reach Cornmarket Street. If you would past the shops to Carfax Tower (next to HSBC). Cross After the first left turn, stop & listen to this track, like to return to the rail station where this tour started Queen Street, taking care to avoid buses, & then cross which explains how to make an application to Oxford make your way down the left hand side of George St Aldates at the pedestrian crossing. Turn right down St for an undergraduate course. You may like to discuss a Street, crossing at the pedestrian crossing when you Aldates, & then take the first left down Blue Boar Street. potential application with our staff in the Admissions reach the end of the road. Then, cross Hythe Bridge Information Centre in Little Clarendon Street. 6 The City of Oxford Street at the next crossing. To reach the next stop, continue along Queens Lane. Listen to this track outside the After passing a small stone bridge over the lane, you 22 Finish Bear Inn on the left hand side of will come to one of the entrances to New College on Make your way down Hythe Bridge Street past the Blue Boar Street; it will give you an your right. At this point, Queens Lane becomes New Said Business School on your right until you return to insight into the city of Oxford from College Lane. the rail station. a student’s perspective. Now that you have reached the end of the tour you To reach your next stop, 15 Gargoyles & Grotesques may like to listen to this final track before you return continue down Blue Boar Street which eventually Keep walking down New College home. If you have any further questions about the becomes Bear Lane. Lane until you see a high wall on University, the colleges or anything else, our your right (the southernmost wall 7 Student Life experienced admissions staff at the Admissions of New College). Look carefully at Stop and listen to this track on student life at Oxford Information Centre will be happy to help. You may the top of this wall to see some before you reach Oriel Square. This track gives you prefer to browse our web pages at www.admissions. examples of gargoyles & the opportunity to listen to a Maths student’s ox.ac.uk grotesques. You’re in the right place if you can see an perspective on life at Hertford College Oxford. To assortment of animals, including a fish, a lemur & continue to the next stop, turn right into the square, Thank you for listening to the Oxford Audio some squirrels. Stop here to listen to this track. & stop outside the main entrance to Oriel College, on Admissions Tour. Continue along New College Lane until you see a large your left. stone bridge (known as the Bridge of Sighs). Admissions Information Centre 8 Oriel College 55 Little Clarendon Street, Oxford OX1 2HS 16 The History of the University Founded: 1326 Number of undergraduates: 302 T: 01865 288000 Stop before you pass under the bridge to listen to this Listen to the Oriel College track outside the entrance. E: [email protected] track which gives you a brief history of Oxford After leaving Oriel, continue up Oriel Square, and turn left University. Continue until you reach Catte Street. Turn onto Merton Street, taking care of cars coming round the © The University of Oxford 2014