A beautiful little city named the UK’s most walkable is so close to the Cotswolds and London. Those on holiday in the capital or the southwest’s rolling hills can make an easy trip to Oxford, the city in Oxfordshire.
The city has also been frequently named among the UK’s most beautiful, with Time Out including it earlier this year in a list of the county’s prettiest places to live.
Oxford was founded in the eighth century on the banks of the Cherwell and the Thames, known locally as the Isis, and was made a city in 1542.
It is also a stone’s throw from London, being 57 miles from the capital. Visitors can enjoy Big Ben, the London Eye, Buckingham Palace, St Paul’s Cathedral, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus and more.
Almost 16 miles away is the Cotswolds, where tourists can see the rural landscape, stone-built villages, towns, stately homes and gardens featuring the local stone sat on the River Thames.
Preply named Oxford the UK’s most walkable city as there are just 1.1 miles between the city’s five biggest tourist attractions, and you could get between them in just 22 minutes.
Its five most popular attractions are the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Pitt Rivers Museum, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, and Oxford University.
All are a part of the university, which is made up of 43 constituent colleges with buildings scattered throughout the city.
There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world’s second-oldest university in continuous operation.
Those wishing to visit Oxford can stay in the number of hotels, B&Bs and holiday lets in the area. The city has lots of bus and train connections to London, Manchester, Norwich and more.
