The first two things that you notice when walking around Oxford are a series of old buildings and the second thing is the vast crowds of foreign tourists studying our superlative history and architecture. As you approach the main shopping area of Oxford via St.Aldates you will find that people are like ants and they don’t walk in straight lines and often mar your progress by getting by getting in your way. If they had been ants, you could have just have stamped on them.
Well why did Oxford become a settlement? Well look at Abingdon and Wallingford just down river and there lies you answer-water plain and simple. Oxford had on the best fords for soldiers to cross the Thames and this historic town was originally built almost in its entirety in the angle between the River Thames and the River Cherwell.
It is now an important cultural, economic and scientific centre and its famous buildings include the Asmolean Museum, the Bodleian Library, the Radcliffe Camera and the Sheldonian Theatre which was designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
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