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Blenheim, Oxford and the Cotswolds

Exterior view of Blenheim Palace in Spring ©Blenheim Palace
West Courtyard at Blenheim Palace ©Blenheim Palace
Great Hall at Blenheim Palace ©Blenheim Palace
Library at Blenheim Palace ©Blenheim Palace
Christ Church College, Oxford, Cotswolds

4 day tour

From £285 per person - minimum 20 passengers

Steeped in history, rich in heritage and awash with natural beauty, the Oxfordshire Cotswolds offers a unique mix of market towns, picturesque villages, stately homes and, of course, the city of Oxford itself. On this short break we indulge ourselves with a walking tour of the city, including a visit to Christ Church College. We then visit Blenheim Palace and take a scenic drive of some of the Cotswolds prettiest towns and villages.

Dates

Dates throughout 2024 & 2025

Suggested itinerary by coach

Day 1

Travel to your hotel

The Greatdays team can offer suggestions for a stop-off on the journey.

Day 2

Oxford, walking tour and Christ Church College

This morning we travel into the centre of Oxford for a 1½ hour guided walking tour of the historic city’s most famous sights and hidden treasures. We go inside the architecturally stunning Christ Church College to see Christopher Wren’s Tom Tower. Our tour includes the Great Hall, quadrangles, the Cathedral and grand staircase. And if all of this looks familiar, it’s because it was used as the setting for ‘Hogwarts’ in the Harry Potter films. After the tour there’s free time to explore the city, perhaps visiting the University of Oxford Botanic Garden, the oldest botanic garden in the UK. Check in to ‘Oxford Castle Unlocked’ and let costumed characters take you on a journey through the castle’s past as a prison.

Day 3

Blenheim Palace and the Oxfordshire Cotswolds

Today we head out into the Oxfordshire Cotswolds to visit Blenheim Palace, home to the 11^th Duke of Marlborough, and birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill. The 2,100 acres of beautiful parkland were landscaped by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown. In the afternoon why not take a scenic drive through the Oxfordshire Cotswolds, local highlights include the Georgian town of Woodstock, the lively market town of Chipping Norton, and Burford, a pretty medieval town with exclusive shops and galleries.

Day 4

Return home

Greatdays offer a selection of quality hotels in Oxfordshire.

Dates	4 days / 3 nights
2024 dates	From £285.00 per person
2025 dates	From £309.00 per person

Single room supplement available upon request.

All prices are per person based on sharing a double or twin room and with one free place for a coach driver or group organiser in a single room, both are based on a minimum 20 full fare paying passengers. Prices do not include coach hire or travel insurance. Dates are subject to availability. Smaller groups can be quoted for on request. Pictures are for illustrative purposes only. Our website policy is to use only copyright free images or images which have been authorised to us for free use by the owner. If you consider an image to be unauthorised or to be your property, please contact us immediately and if invalid we will have the image removed. If your image requires crediting or is missing a copyright statement then we will be pleased to add this to the webpage, contact us at info@greatdays.co.uk