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The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology on Beaumont Street in Oxford, England, is Britain's first public museum. Its first building was erected in 1678–1683 to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the University o
The University of Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in Great Britain and one of the oldest scientific gardens in the world. The garden was founded in 1621 as a physic garden growing plants for medicinal research. Today it c
Untitled 1986, commonly known as the Headington Shark, is a rooftop sculpture located at 2 New High Street, Headington, Oxford, England, depicting a large shark embedded head-first in the roof of a house. It was protest art, put up without
Seven Sisters is one of the easiest ways to make London disappear for a day: white chalk cliffs, Cuckmere Haven, sea wind, rolling paths and a proper coastal reset without renting a car. [Open the route map](https://www.google.com/maps/dir
A full-day Kent escape with safari trucks, giraffes, rhinos, big cats, gardens, long paths and the feeling that you have travelled much further than two hours from London. Read in Russian · [Official Port Lympne site](https://www.aspinallf
A practical, train-first guide to English castles you can visit from London: royal palaces, dramatic ruins, riverside towns, sea cliffs and slow countryside days without renting a car. First time Windsor or Hampton Court: the easiest, pre
Sometimes the best reset is not a flight, but one good train, one beautiful place and an evening return to London. This guide gathers easy car-free day trips from London: historic cities, sea air, cliffs, castles, villages and routes that a
A practical, slow-travel guide to five beautiful day hikes you can do from London without renting a car: white cliffs, chalk streams, ancient woodland, Surrey viewpoints and long Chiltern ridges. [Check trains](https://www.nationalrail.co
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