“Be not solitary, be not idle”: Guided walk around the parish of St Thomas the Martyr, West Oxford

Event date
Event time
12:00 - 13:45
Venue
Starting point: Next to Oxford Castle mound
New Road
Oxford
OX1 1AY
Event type
Other
Event cost
Free
Disabled access?
No
Booking required
Required

'But the most pleasant of all outward pastimes is ... to make a pretty progress, a merry journey now and then with some good companions, to visit friends, see cities, castles, towns.' (The Anatomy of Melancholy 2.2.4.1)

Follow Robert Burton’s recommendation with a guided walk around one of the most ancient and historic areas of Oxford. St Thomas’s was among Oxford’s earliest suburbs, first inhabited in Saxon times.