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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.
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