CS Lewis & Tolkien Tour with Magdalen Entry Public tour 10.45am
This public tour is brand new to be listed here on viator but we have been successfully running this tour with excellent reviews for private groups for several years here with over 46 recommendations .
This tour typically lasts 2 hours to 2.5 hours and it includes entry to Magdalen college, where CS Lewis taught. If Magdalen is ever closed, we will inform you & offer refund or reschedule date or proceed with a visit to an alternative such as Exeter college, where Tolkien studied.
This tour introduces both these famous writers and their lives here in Oxford plus offers insights into what life is like as an Oxford academic.
Magdalen entry fee worth £10 per person is included.
NOTICE: any known closures for Magdalen college will be published under the What's Excluded section.
Please note that Magdalen only permits entry to up to 10 persons with guide before we must instead pre book with Magdalen. Thus, if you book at very short notice, you may instead be asked to do private tour.
Options
Public 11.45
Public tour at 11.45: Minimum 3 adults to book
What's included in CS Lewis & Tolkien Tour with Magdalen Entry Public tour 10.45am
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
Radcliffe Camera
We pass by & mention such famous sights
Bridge of Sighs
We pass by & mention such famous sights
Bodleian Library
The tour introduces most major tourist sights and colleges on our route as we introduce specifically focused tour about CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien's work and their membership of the Inklings Writers club here in Oxford
Inclusions
- Please check 'Exclusions' below for dates of any partial closures eg the hall
- Tour is led by award winning guides with hundreds of existing 5 star ratings for this tour!
- Your ticket includes entry worth £10 to Magdalen college to see the hall, chapel, gardens, quad.
- Magdalen is closed Sep 26 & Oct 5 of 2025. On these dates, the tour will visit alternative college.
- Magdalen is usually closed for Xmas about Dec 22 to Dec 31- no entry possible on those dates!
- On any dates that Magdalen is closed, we'll replace entry with Tolkien's Exeter college
- This tour is not aimed at young children but if you wish to bring children, please inform us before
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Please arrive 5 minutes early for your tour at our meeting point.
Meet
Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting Points
- Meet your guide wearing red lanyard. Meeting next to our black sign, OUTSIDE Oxford Tourist info centre, 15 Broad street, OX1 3AS. This is also next to the Oxfam shop which has a green sign above its shop.
End Points
- End point varies but is generally outside St Marys University church, outside Magdalen college or back on Broad street. We will assist either way with directions and we also offer a free city map.
Redeem
Ticket Redemption
These tours MUST START ON TIME as wherever possible, we pre purchase entry tickets for fixed entry times at Christchurch. If you arrive after the tour has started, you will unfortunately therefore lose your booking. Please arrive 5 minutes early for your tour at our meeting point. If you arrive more than 5 minutes later than the scheduled tour, then you will likely forfeit and lose your booking as it interrupts the guide and other customers, if we are trying to find you after a guide has started and left the meeting point. IMPORTANT NOTICE IN CASE OF UNFORESEEN PARTIAL OF FULL CLOSURES: NB if we might offer you a Saturday morning tour to Christchurch, then while we can visit the HP film sites at Christchurch, we cannot usually show you the dining hall, as it is closed at this time. We do publish known Christchurch closures on this website page & we will advise of any closures at the time of booking or before the tour but occasionally some closures are last minute. In this event, our policy is either the guide can substitute entry for Christchurch to another college such as eg New college (also a Hogwarts film site). Alternatively, you may opt to reschedule your tour onto another date or to instead join one of our other tours running the same date such as the Oxford cycle tour of food tour (which cost approximately same). REFUNDS POLICY: If you opt to book a foreign language private group tour, this may be possible if you give us adequate advance notice of at least 24 hours. If we cannot offer a tour in a foreign language, then you will be refunded or invited to join the tour in English with any cost difference refunded. Christchurch Dining hall only is closed on following dates 2020 (the tour will go ahead as the hall is NOT the film site anyway): April 24 May 9 Oct 4 + Oct 9 While very rare, the film sites are private university and college venues, on very rare occasions they may suddenly close to the public without any advance notice!
