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Ancient Echoes

£ 15 per person

The birthplace of countless academic, political, scientific, and religious movements, it has also seen much death over its long life. You can discover and explore Oxford's tumultuous history at your own pace and in your own way with CityDays.

We will lead you on a curious journey through time in the northern city centre. Scurry down alleys, find fascinating facts and hidden details, step into bustling streets lined with beautiful boutiques and amazing eateries, all while following cryptic directions.

Discover which terrible lizard left marks in a lawn, the grim fate of Oxford's imprisoned! Find out about religious reformation, the fate of fallen martyrs, and so much more!

Plan your day

Start anytime, some daylight recommended!

2 hours on average across 3.0 km / 1.9 miles

Start Location

South side of Oxford Castle mound

End Location

Cornmarket Street

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The great things our customers have to say about CityDays

Lauren James

Lauren James

Great day! Awesome way to see the city.

Fenwick & Black

Fenwick & Black

What a great way to spend the day! Really engaging clues, interesting facts and kept us thinking for a good few hours. …

The FRIENDS Cast

The FRIENDS Cast

So fun! Brilliant storytelling and the right amount of difficulty so we managed to figure it out eventually.

Phat Phucs

Phat Phucs

Great trail with some interesting facts

McClellands

McClellands

Another fun day. Slowly ticking off all the major cities

Kungaloosh!

Kungaloosh!

A wonderful, insightful and above all fun way to spend an afternoon. My husband is born and bred in London and he was b…

Team PO

Team PO

A brilliant range of landmarks and other beautiful areas covered, very historically rich as well as a fun and enticing …

Lovely Ladies

Lovely Ladies

Another great trail complete! This is the 3rd one we've done and are slowly working our way through them all. The trail…

Wallerkota

Wallerkota

Very good and fun trip. Good questions overall and would def do it again.

McClellands

McClellands

Fabulous way to explore a new city and a great way to keep my kids (10, 12) involved!! Would highly recommend.

PH

PH

Great tour of the city with fun clues to dolce along the way. Timely stops for ‘refreshment’ and start/end times not to…

Frank's Pack

Frank's Pack

We had such a good day with the CityDays York Food tour - it took us all over the city and to cafes we wouldn't have di…

Crookes not Villains

Crookes not Villains

Great, fun & informative.

Bombastic Barry

Bombastic Barry

I found the experience really fun and interesting and definitely a great way to spend a day in london. It was so good t…

The College Girls

The College Girls

What a delightful way to see York !! Loved every minute . Thankyou for a great fun couple of hours

Jess & Abbie

Jess & Abbie

Brilliant day! We had such a wonderful time exploring parts of our city we never knew about! Already recommended to all…

You have to take your sister with you

You have to take your sister with you

We loved this walk, the clues were fun and unpredictable and it showed us parts of greenwich we had never explored. Wou…

House of Craze

House of Craze

Great way to see different parts of the city. We loved it, pretty easy to follow, we took our time and really enjoyed t…

Team ZG

Team ZG

Had a great time figuring out the clues with friends. The game takes you all over Dublin and was an extremely fun outin…

Dave O's team

Dave O's team

It's a great hunt with historical explanation included for each place!

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