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How the city is laid out and what to do with a first day.
- A First Day, Honestly PlannedWhat fits, what doesn't, and what to skip without regret.
- How Oxford Is Laid OutWhy the centre feels like a maze and how to stop it being one.
- For Every Famous Thing, the Emptier One NearbyPairs: the obvious, and the better one round the corner.
- When the Crowds Are and Aren'tHours and rhythms rather than seasons.
What you can generally get into, and how to read the stone.
- Which Colleges You Can Actually Walk IntoThe general pattern of access — and the standing rule to check on the day.
- How to Read a QuadrangleGate, lodge, hall, chapel: what the shape of a college tells you.
- The Radcliffe Camera and the BodleianA reading room, a library, and why one is round.
- The Stone ItselfWhy Oxford is the colour it is, and why it keeps being repaired.
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Museums
The collections, and the ones arranged unlike anywhere else.
- The Pitt Rivers Is Not Arranged the Way You ExpectTypological display, and what it does to how you look.
- The Ashmolean, Room by RoomBritain's first public museum, and how to spend two hours in it.
- The Museum of Natural HistoryThe building is the exhibit — cast iron and Gothic under glass.
- The Small CollectionsHistory of Science, the Botanic Garden herbarium, and other quiet rooms.
Meadow, river and the routes out of the crowds.