Oxford, Stratford & the Cotswolds Villages Tour by Anderson Tours

Tour Itinerary

7.25am-7.45am Pick ups London Zone 1 - at time of booking please specify your requested pick up location

(We will contact you the day prior to your tour to confirm your pick up time and location - please ensure we have a valid contact phone number/email address that you will have access to in London the day before)

- Our Oxford, Stratford & Cotswolds Villages tour takes you through both history and beautiful countryside

- Enjoy a walking tour of the University city of Oxford

- Drive through the picturesque Cotswolds, an area the size of Greater Tokyo and of natural beauty! We make a stop for a traditional Cotswolds cream tea!

- Visit Shakespeare's Stratford where entrance is included into his birthplace and see many of the historic properties associated with his life.

- 6.30pm - Approximate arrival back in Central London

Please note details are subject to changes

About Oxford

Well known as it is, Oxford never fails to impress even its most regular visitors with something different or something new. Oxford, The City of Dreaming Spires, is famous the world over for its University and place in history. For over 800 years it has been a home to royalty and scholars. Since the 9th century it's been an established town, although people are known to have lived in the area for thousands of years. Nowadays, the city is a bustling cosmopolitan town. Still with its ancient University, but home also to a growing hi-tech community.

About The Cotswolds

The Cotswolds is an area of England about the size of greater Tokyo. Popular with both the English themselves and visitors from all over the world. The Cotswolds are well known for gentle hillsides ("wolds"), sleepy villages and for being so 'typically English'. There are famous cities such as Bath, well-known beautiful towns like Cheltenham and hundreds of delightful villages such as Burford and Castle Combe. Above all, the local honey-coloured limestone which is used for everything from the stone floors in the houses to the tiles on the roof, has ensured that the area has a magical uniformity of architecture.

About Shakespeare's Stratford

Stratford is one of England's most historic and vibrant towns and the birthplace of the famous bard, William Shakespeare.

When he retired from writing in 1611 he returned to Stratford to live in a house which he had built for his family. His only son, Hamnet died when still a child. He also lost a daughter Judith (twin to Hamnet), but his third child Susanna married a Stratford Doctor, John Hall and their home "Hall's Croft" is today preserved as one of the Shakespeare Properties and administered by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

In 1616 Shakespeare was buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity, the same Church where he was baptised in 1564. Tradition has it that he died after an evening's drinking with some of his theatre friends. His gravestone bears the words:-

"Good frend for Jesus sake forebeare,

to digg the dust encloased heare,

Bleste be ye man yt spares thes stones,

And curst be he yt moves my bones. "

Approximate arrival back in Central London around 6.30pm

Please note details are subject to changes

Pick up Points

Customer Specified from - [7:25 am]

Customer specified. Anywhere in Zone 1. Between 7.25-7.45 (We will contact you by phone/email the day before to confirm location & time)