OxLit Trail Map

Soak up the views of Oxford's "dreaming spires" and pen your own odes in the field dedicated to the man who coined the phrase.

Full of character, the summer home to William Morris, designer, writer and poet extraordinaire and his companion Dante Gabriel Rosetti.

A grand stately home with a fine arts collection, including Edward Burne-Jones' exquisite take on Sleeping Beauty.

Discover "the worst poet laureate" ever seen and a chance to "sing a song of sixpence".

Eccentric, eclectic and just wonderfully surreal. Welcome to the world of Lord Berners and his pink pigeons...

A delightful 390 year old schoolroom, just the place to immerse yourself in Tom Brown's progress at Rugby School.

Stand on the rolling downs at the feet of one of Britain's most enigmatic, ancient and inspiring muses.

All things "Jude the Obscure", explore Hardy's Cresscombe, the wonderful setting for Arabella's Cottage.

Explore the home of one of Britain's best loved poets and his flying teddy bear with the homemade brown paper wings...

A second helping of Betjeman and a chance to see a poem written in his own hand (and a pint in his local).

Literarily lose yourself in a book or twenty at Wantage's cavernous book store housed in the old cinema.

Get the feeling that "Big Brother" is watching you as you discover the final resting place of one of Britain's greatest authors...

"the quaintest, most old-world inn up the river" as loved by the protagonists in Jerome K Jerome's whimsical travelogue.

The chance to pit your skills against the world's elite in the discipline of Pooh Sticks...

Discover a rather magical ode to the Oxfordshire Countryside that continues to defy time and its own mortality.
 

Find out more about; the home, life, times and resting place of "The Queen of Crime", Agatha Christie.

Indulge your inner bibliophile amongst the stacks and leather bound tomes of this rare and second-hand bookstore.
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Bring your darkly poetic leanings and find out more about Wilfred Owen and his bleak depictions of the "Pity of War".

Mess around in boats with Ratty, Mole , Toad and Badger at an excellent interactive exhibition on the river that inspired it all.

Leather-bound tomes and antiquarian adventures at a Henley institution.

A spot of "Three Men in a Boat", and a dash of Chaucer in some truly lovely surroundings.

Discover more about the award-winning, fascinating and slightly esoteric world of W.B.Yeats.

The atmospheric memorial to the extraordinary writer of the spy thriller "The Thirty-Nine Steps".

Where the serious literary aficionados come to play...