Oxford Harry Potter Inspired Walking Tour

Muggles welcome! Go inside New College and the Bodleian Library on a magical adventure into the medieval buildings of Oxford University. With a fun Oxford student guide, complete with a quiz, the odd prop, and terrible jokes and puns! Suitable for devout Harry Potter fans, along with those publicly unwilling to admit their devotion, and those with no prior interest but looking for a fun way to explore! The tour includes other famous books such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Hobbit, and Lord of the Rings - along with the history of Oxford University.

Meeting Point

Oxford Tourist Information

15, 16 Broad St, Oxford OX1 3AS, UK

Please ensure you are there 15 minute before the tour is set to start, and you can be check-in at the Oxford Tourist Information building. If this is not open for any reason, please wait outside.

What's included:

• Professional guide

What to expect:

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Blackwell's Bookshop

48-51 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BQ

Not quite Flourish and Blotts but as close as a muggle bookshop can be. Blackwells is the dream of every Ravenclaw, holding approximately holding 250,000 volumes, which translates to 3 miles of books! This is even more impressive knowing that their first store measured only 12 feet square, and held just 700 used books.
Don't forget to have a look at the roof of the building from a distance. Don't worry the stone figure you'll see on top isn't someone petrified. It is a statue by Antony Gormley; one of a series of sculptures called “Another Time II”.

10 minutes

Bodleian Library

Broad Street, University Of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3BG

One of the largest libraries in England and home to archaic medieval books on spells and wizards!

15 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Clarendon Building

Broad St., Oxford, OX1 3BA

Learn about how magic or occult sciences were studied at Oxford! These were not seen as completely separate from science until the end of the seventeenth century, so alchemy and astrology were researched here until then.

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

New College

Holywell Street, , Oxford, OX1 3BN

Despite the name, it is one of the oldest Colleges at Oxford, built-in 1379. With its medieval cloisters and beautiful spaces it is easy to see why they decided to film multiple scenes for Harry Potter here!

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Radcliffe Camera

Radcliffe Square, , Oxford, OX1 3BG

A truly iconic Oxford landmark! Learn about the underground passages students take and the rules librarians enforce. Not quite as intensely as Madam Pince though.
Externally covered. The Radcliffe Camera is not accessible to visitors without a Library pass or a student pass

10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included

University Church of St. Mary the Virgin

The High Street, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 4BJ

An iconic door hidden to the side would be inspirational for another famous children's writer, CS Lewis for his famous Chronicles Of Narnia. Hear how he and Tolkien would meet weekly and take inspiration from the Oxford landscape
Externally covered. The group will not enter the church but the church can be visited for free before or after the tour.

5 minutes

The Divinity School

The Divinity School, Oxford OX1 3AZ, UK

This dramatic site is not only one of the oldest parts of the University, but it was also used in various scenes when filming of Harry Potter was taking place in Oxford. Instantly recognisable as a Harry Potter site, with one of the best examples of medieval architecture in England.

15 minutes