A graceful prehistoric figure of a horse cut into the chalk of a hillside about 3,000 years ago, the oldest hill figure in Britain. It is best seen from a distance or the air; up close, walk to the Iron Age hillfort of Uffington Castle above it and Dragon Hill below, where St George is said to have slain the dragon.
The Ridgeway, one of Britain's oldest roads, runs along the top, and Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic long barrow, is a short walk west.
The largest stone circle in Britain, so big that part of the village of Avebury sits inside it.
The grandest of Oxford's colleges, founded by Cardinal Wolsey and Henry VIII in 1546.
A historic indoor market in the centre of Oxford, open since 1774, with about 50 independent traders: butchers, bakers, cheesemongers, cafés, florist…
The heart of the University of Oxford: the Bodleian, one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and the domed Radcliffe Camera beside it, Oxford's most f…
A youth hostel in a large Victorian house, five minutes' walk from the River Thames at Streatley, where the Thames Path crosses the ancient Ridgeway …
A medieval nunnery turned into a country house, where William Henry Fox Talbot made the earliest surviving photographic negative in 1835, of an oriel…
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