If you spend a week in London, you will have time to do at least one or more day excursions to see more England. There are many destination options such as Bath, the COTSWOLDSStonehenge and Oxford. Some are easily accessible by train, such as Bath or Oxford, but to combine destinations, you can either rent a car, make a coach bus visit or hire a private driver guide.
In this guide, I will show you how to take a A day excursion to Stonehenge and Oxford in London, And what to do while you are there.
Since we had the heart to see both Stonehenge and Oxford During our day trip, a bus trip was out of the question. Not that I would recommend a bus trip with a family anyway, but they are profitable. Unfortunately, all bus trips generally add another place like Windsor castle – Nothing was exactly what we wanted.
In addition, after driving to the left in Ireland, I was not enthusiastic about the prospect of crossing the English countryside during this trip. And there was no way that I wanted to try to drive to London.
I traveled internet for hours looking for an option until we finally decided that it is worth reserving a private visit to provide us with exactly the trip we were looking for. I wanted to make sure that we include a visit to Harry Potter during our day trip from Oxford, because we plan London’s ultimate journey for Harry Potter fans.
But I also wanted someone who could explain to us the rich story of Stonehenge, compared to simply exploring the most famous stone circle in the world by ourselves. I found exactly what I was looking for British visits.
Voyage of a day of Stonehenge and Oxford from London
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A day excursion to Stonehenge Tour
Located about 1.5 hours from London, a Stone stone One of the most popular for families. There is just something in these mysterious prehistoric stones that fascinate children and adults – in particular families like ours who have a particular interest in science fiction and fantasy. After all, is it not fun to imagine that these stones were placed there by extraterrestrials? (But don’t worry, they haven’t been.))
If you visit Stonehenge by yourself, you will want to spend time in the reception center to understand its history. You will park in the center of visitors on the road, then take a shuttle to the stone circle. You can no longer walk directly and touch the stones, because barriers have been erected to preserve this historic site.
Our guide driver Michael from British visits We have fulfilled the story of Stonehenge on Mount London. We do not really know the goal of stones, because they are 5100 years old (built roughly at the same time as the pyramids) and a story written before the date.
We do not know what is special in the region, but we must assume that the whole area was considered sacred because there is also another mini Stonehenge nearby. Small stones are 5,000 lb. And they came from Wales 125 miles away. It is breathtaking to consider how the ancient druids have designed and moved these stones when the wheel had not even been invented yet and there was not yet metal to use to shape the stones. The biggest stones came from only 25 miles away, but they represent tens of thousands of books!
They even rounded the stones slightly to have them adapted to the circular shape of Stonehenge (Henge meaning circle.) In the middle is what they call the slaughter stone. There is no real evidence of ritual sacrifice in Stonehenge, but that makes a good story. You see, when it rains, the stone looks reddish. But it is not blood, just iron in stone that causes coloring.
Our private visit to Stonehenge has just fallen the most popular days to visit – the winter solstice. The longest and shortest days of the year are popular to visit and if you arrive there early the longest day of the year, you can see the sun rise above the heel stone (a stone which is in fact prior to Stonehenge that the Druids may have thought of having been set up by the sun and the sunset, in all the paddles and other visitors did not do very well for our sun.
A day excursion to Oxford Tour
Oxford is another large choice of day trips to London for families. There is something to see that you could spend a Weekend in Oxford. This university city is both picturesque and rich in history. In hot weather, families can enjoy a boat on the sidelines on the river.
But one of the main prints for us (and other families) is that it was the filming site of many scenes in the Harry Potter films. If you visit yourself, you can join a Harry Potter walking visit. But since I told British tours that this was important for us, our driver’s guide Michael was able to concentrate much of our visit to the sight of these sites.
Oxford was called Oxenford (where oxen crossed or struck the Thames to be put on the market), but he became a place of study after the students were thrown out of the Sorbonne in France because of a war in the 1200s. They came to Oxford to study and he grew up until he granted university status. Today, the University of Oxford has 38 individual colleges.
There is so much to see in Oxford that you can really spend at least a full day, but our Oxford tour started at New College, where Michael underlined the cloisters, which were used for many corridor scenes in the Harry Potter films. You can also see the tree where Draco Malfoy has been transformed into a ferret.
After lunch at the Turf Tavern, which fueled a number of famous people from Bill Clinton in the 1960s at Elizabeth Taylor, Ben Kingsley, and to the distribution and the Harry Potter films team, we moved to Christchurch College.
The large room of Christchurch College was the place where they filmed scenes for the Hogwarts dining room. And the staircase was the place where McGonagall praised all the first -year students in the first film. Something about this makes you want to put a dress, direct yourself in the library and start studying (magic or something else!)
Oxford is a wonderful place to visit for those who have a literary fold. Famous authors like CS Lewis, Jrr Tolkein, Lewis Carroll and others spent time in Oxford and it’s fun to follow their traces.
Visiting the two places was a full day, leaving at 8 a.m. and returning to our central hotel in London at 6 p.m. In summer, it would be light longer and the attractions would remain open later. If this was the case, we would have included a stop in the village of Lacock in the Cotswolds, another Harry Potter shooting site.
This day tour with British Tours was exactly what we hoped for with a warm and informative guide which was also comfortable to explain the ancient story as to describe filming sites for the Harry Potter films. Michael was able to connect with our teenager and she was so delighted with Oxford, which she wanted to apply to go to the University of Oxford. We certainly recommend that you work with British tours for a group trip or, better still, to hire a private pilot guide for your own personalized trip from London.
British visits Offers all types of visits to a day in London, including private and group visits to the castle of Windsor, Bath, Stratford on Avon, the Château de Blenheim and the Château de Highclere (the real abbey of Downton.)
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