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