New College Oxford Harry Potter Insights PRIVATE TOUR Daily
Test your spell-craft & knowledge of all things Potter with our guide. We are the original Harry Potter in Oxford walking tour- find out why many others copied our success by joining our tour to find out all about how Oxford inspired Hogwarts and JK Rowling's influences and loads of insights about the actors, the producers and of course about Oxford too.
This tour includes entry to arguably one of the most appealing and one of the oldest and likely most haunted colleges called New college. At New college, you can marvel at the gorgeous medieval dining hall, chapel, cloisters, quadrangle and the medieval wall of the city. In the cloisters and garden is where several scenes were filmed in the Goblet of Fire,
Includes £8 entry fee to New college + £3 entry to Divinity school, as & when Divinity school is open.
NOTICE: see what's Not Included section for partial closures!
10.45am TOURS TO BE BOOKED BY 20.30!
Options
2023 minimum 4 persons
What's included in New College Oxford Harry Potter Insights PRIVATE TOUR Daily
(Subject to Option Inclusions)Itinerary
New College
We typically spend about 30 minutes+ here to see the medieval cloisters film site plus the medieval quadrangle and walls plus the chapel, the hall and the gardens. Entry worth £8 per person is included in the ticket.
Bodleian Library
Entry worth £2.50 per person is included to the Divinity school film site at the Bodleian library, as and when it's open. For dates of any closures, please consult the What's not included section of this webpage before you book. Notice: no guides, nor any guided tour companies have ever been permitted to guide inside the medieval Duke Humfreys library at the Bodleian Library, so the library itself is NOT included on our tour.
Bridge of SighsPass-by Only
We pass by here and many other famous sites and introduce such sites on the tour
Inclusions
- Entry worth £3 to the Divinity school film site at the Bodleian library, as & when open
- Entry worth £8 to New college film site (worth £12 from August 1st 2025)
- This tour does NOT visit Christ church as we run that as a separate & more expensive tour
- No tour companies can ever guide inside the medieval Duke Humfreys Bodleian Library
- 2025 dates of known full or partial Divinity school closures includes....
- July 5, 19, 26 and 29, Aug 1 + 2 + 9, Sep 26 + 27, Nov 7+ 8+9+14 +15 of 2025
- New college partial closure of cloisters- any such dates we will add here to forewarn you:
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- INFO FOR DRIVERS AND PARKING: If you are driving, then please allow extra 30-60 minutes over whatever time you think it will take you to get here. Oxford is NOT car friendly and it is congested roads and hard to find parking spaces....unless you park at the sign posted 'park and rides' on edge of town on any major road into the city and hop on their buses into city centre. The park and ride buses leave every 15 or every 30 minutes and take anything from 10 min to 30 min (depending on traffic) to reach city centre. So if you are going to drive, then please assume you should be aiming to park your car about one hour before your tour starts.
Meet
Pickup and Dropoff
You will make your own way to the meeting points
Meeting Points
- Meet your guide wearing red lanyard and or Hogwarts gown. 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.
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Ticket Redemption
• Please be aware that the tour all takes place OUTSIDE and as British weather is unpredictable, please make sure you dress for all weather, including rain. • What to expect, in case of rain? Plus about same day cancellations of the tour by the tour operator: • If on the date of your tour, the weather forecast expects heavy rain, we may decide to call you up to cancel the tour at just a few hours notice. So when you book, please send us a contact mobile phone number and also an email address too. If you see the weather is looking questionable, please also check your phone for any text messages on the day of your tour. If we decide to cancel your tour, you will receive a full refund or if you agree, we will offer to reschedule your booking onto another date or if you prefer, we will offer to book you onto a different tour, free of charge, for the following day. • Please note it is very rare that we will cancel any of our other tours listed on getyourguide but as this is a theatre tour using props and with the actor guides wearing costumes, please understand that this tour can be weather dependent. • Our contact phone numbers are (44)2079657523 or mobile (44)7955482637.
