Tim - guided tours

09/03/2026

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Contrada Tours provides high quality walking tours in Italian French and English. We also run special interest tours on topics such as Tolkien, Lewis and the Inklings, history, architecture and music. Independent, knowledgeable, experienced local guides.

17/01/2025

I'm doing the Tolkien Lewis walking tour tomorrow lunchtime. There are a few spare places. Send me a message if you'd like to join me for a stroll around Oxford and a chat about these two fascinating writers / academics.

For all fans of the most well-known writers in the Oxford literary group known as The Inklings, this is the specialist walking tour to take!

07/12/2024

An update on the pub where Lewis, Tolkien and the Inklings used to meet. Sounds like good news, hopefully ... I didn't know about the rabbits!

What do you get when the world’s third richest man buys Tolkien’s local? Oxford is about to find out. The Eagle & Child is Oxford’s most storied inn. It was here that the Inklings met every Tuesday lunchtime – a writing group including J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S.

14/11/2024

Nice!

What a fantastic finish on the New Quad lawn when it was freshly mown, thanks to James of the University Parks Maintenance Department! 😍

09/11/2024

Busy day in Oxford today with graduation ceremonies at the Sheldonian. Meanwhile I was busy doing the Saturday Tolkien Lewis tour https://www.experienceoxfordshire.org/product/cs-lewis-jrr-tolkien-walking-tour-oxford/ with a great group of guests! Experience Oxfordshire

05/11/2024

It was a pleasure to show some of the students from the Brighton College Chamber choir round Christ Church, Oxford yesterday, and to hear them sing!

Our award-winning Chamber Choir have arrived at Christ Church, Oxford, ahead of their Evensong service. 🎶

Wishing you all a wonderful evening! We will have more photos to follow 🔜.

14/10/2024

On this day ....

in 1920, the first women received their Oxford degrees 🎓

📷 | St Anne's College

22/09/2024

I didn't get a photo, but it was great to guide 20 young people from South Africa round Oxford this morning. Part of the 2024 Academic achievers program. https://www.travelandsport.com/academic-achievers-2024/

15/09/2024

Visit to Corpus Christi college, part of open doors 2024.

https://facebook.com/events/s/oxford-open-doors-2024/822930916391853/

08/09/2024

The Sheldonian Theatre was looking good the other evening.

I have a few tours coming up this week. I'm doing the standard city and university tour at these times:
Monday 12 noon and 3pm (St Giles Fair!)
Thursday 11 and 2pm
Friday 11 and 1.
All tours start from Broad Street.

03/09/2024

Would anyone like to join me on a Tolkien / Lewis themed tour on Thursday afternoon 5 September? I have a few spare places available for friends (free). We'll be walking around the centre of Oxford, visiting places linked to Tolkien and Lewis and exploring their lives and work, covering their time as students, teachers and writers. Meet outside Trinity College at 2.30 pm. Tour will finish by 4.30 pm. Send me a message if you're interested.