OXFORDSHIRE – World Travel

Henley On Thames

WorldTravelDB.com — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:59:57 +0000

Set on the banks of the river and studded with elegant stone houses, a few Tudor relics, chichi shops and affluent residents, Henley is a conservative but well-heeled kind of place that bursts into action for its world-famous regatta and festival each year. Outside the summer festivities it’s a reasonably pleasant but workaday commuter town with an interesting museum, a scenic setting and a good choice of facilities.

The tourist office (578034; www.visithenley-on-thames.com; The Barn, King’s Rd; 11am-4.45pm Mon-Sat Mar-Oct, 11am-3.45pm Mon-Sat Nov-Feb) is next to the handsome town hall.

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Oxford

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Bookish, conservative, closeted and elite, Oxford is a privileged place, highly aware of its international standing as one of the world’s most famous university towns and yet remarkably restrained for a city driven by its student population. It’s the kind of place where the pursuit of excellence, the weight of academic achievement and the whiff of intellectual ideals is palpable as soon as you get off the bus.

Thirty-nine colleges make up the university, their elegant honey-coloured buildings wrapping around winding cobbled streets and attracting hoards of tourists each year. Yet despite the rushing traffic and throngs of people, inside their jealously guarded quadrangles an aura of studious calm descends. The oldest colleges date back almost 750 years and little has changed inside the hallowed walls since then. The archaic traditions, customs and dress codes live on and the architecture remains largely untouched, allowing visitors to experience the colleges as countless prime ministers, poets, writers and scientists have done.

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Woodstock

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Conveniently close to Oxford, yet a quintessential rural retreat, the charming village of Woodstock makes a wonderful day trip from the city. The big draw here is Blenheim Palace, the opulent country pile of the Churchill family, but the village itself is full of picturesque creeper-clad cottages and elegant town houses.

The hub of the village is the imposing town hall, built at the Duke of Marlborough’s expense in 1766. Nearby, the Church of St Mary Magdalene had a 19th-century makeover but retains its Norman doorway, early English windows and a musical clock.

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