4 stops · 624 m · 45 min · a pint, a museum and a college
Free
Strides & Spires · Self-guided walks · Oxford
You are standing outside the Lamb & Flag.
What happens next is up to you. This is the pubs walk from the Strides & Spires app, word for word: made and voiced by someone who knows the city, and at the good bits you choose. Go in for a pint, or keep walking?
The app is the same thing on the street, with a voice in your ear.
How it works
Pick a start. Choose the rest.
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Pick a walk
Pubs, colleges, museums. Each walk is made and voiced by someone who knows that part of Oxford.
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Follow the line
The app knows where you are. Directions and stories play as you reach each stop, so your phone can stay in your pocket.
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Choose at the fork
Go in for a pint, take the museum tour, or keep walking. Side tours are optional extras, and the walk picks up where you left off.
Try it
Walk the first tour from here.
This is the real pubs tour, word for word. Make the choices and see how your day turns out.
Oxford pubs: Lamb & Flag to King's ArmsBy Mark
Stop 1 · Lamb & Flag
Welcome to the Oxford pubs tour. You're outside the Lamb and Flag. Fancy going in for a pint, or shall we keep walking?
Your day
Your choices will show here.
Another walk · Spires to the River
From the Radcliffe Camera to Magdalen Bridge.
Under the Bridge of Sighs, down Queen's Lane and along the High to the river: 878 metres, five stops and two choices. It's drawn the way John Ogilby drew England's roads in 1675, as one long strip read from the top. Scroll down the road and the compass swings at every turn.
“The round building is the Radcliffe Camera. Camera just means room: it opened as a library in 1749, and students still read in it.”
Walk north up Catte Street, towards the bridge.
0 mStop 2 · Walk under
Bridge of Sighs
“Look up. That's Hertford College's bridge, finished in 1914 to join its two quads. Everyone calls it the Bridge of Sighs.”
Turn right under it into New College Lane, then follow Queen's Lane as it twists between the college walls.
117 mStop 3 · A choice
Queen's Lane Coffee House
“Fancy a coffee? The Queen's Lane Coffee House has been serving since 1654. Or shall we keep walking?”
Go in: it says it's the oldest coffee house in Europe that's still open. Then turn left along the High.
523 mStop 4 · A choice
Magdalen College
“This is Magdalen College, said Maudlin, founded in 1458. Would you like to go in and see the deer park, or carry on down to the river?”
Go in: the cloisters, the deer park and Addison's Walk by the Cherwell. The college charges visitors for entry.
774 mStop 5 · The end
Magdalen Bridge
“You're on Magdalen Bridge, over the Cherwell. At six o'clock on May Morning the choir sings from the top of the tower behind you, and this bridge is packed.”
That's the end of the walk. Punts are for hire at the boathouse just below the bridge.
878 m
0 of 878 mCatte Streetheading NNW
Make a walk
Know Oxford? Make a walk.
Strides & Spires is a place for people who know a city to make walks and get paid for them. You make it in the app, on foot.
Walk the route and drop a pin at every stop. The app sets how close people need to be before it plays.
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Say it in your own voice
Record what you'd tell a friend. Directions, one good story, and when to press next.
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Add forks and side tours
Give people a choice at the good bits. A side tour can be free or a paid add-on.
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Set a price, or make it free
Free walks bring people in. Paid walks and add-ons earn you money. Every walk is checked before it goes live.
Your passport
Finish a walk, collect the stamp.
Every walk you finish stamps your passport. Each stop inks a piece of the stamp, so you can see how far you got. Finish a set of walks for a badge, and every two stamps moves you up a rank, from Fresher to Chancellor.
Your rankFresher
Fresher
Scholar
Fellow
Warden
Chancellor
0 of 21 stamps.
Strides & Spires · OxfordPage 1 of 4
The Pubs of OxfordOn this pageCollect it in Try it
Spires to the RiverOn this pageCollect it on the map
Harry Potter film locationsDemo3 of 5 stops
Five CollegesDemo1 of 5 stops
Natural History MuseumDemo0 of 3 stops
Alice's OxfordDemo0 of 4 stops
Strides & Spires · OxfordPage 2 of 4
The InklingsDemo0 of 4 stops
Oxford After DarkDemo0 of 4 stops
Christ Church and the MeadowDemo0 of 4 stops
Radcliffe SquareDemo0 of 4 stops
New College and the City WallDemo0 of 4 stops
Jericho pubsDemo2 of 4 stops
Strides & Spires · OxfordPage 3 of 4
Riverside pubsDemo0 of 4 stops
The Divinity School and BodleianDemo0 of 3 stops
New College cloistersDemo0 of 3 stops
Inspector Morse's pubsDemo0 of 4 stops
Inspector Morse's collegesDemo0 of 4 stops
Inspector Morse on the riverDemo0 of 4 stops
Strides & Spires · OxfordPage 4 of 4
Lyra's OxfordDemo0 of 4 stops
Port MeadowDemo0 of 4 stops
Folly Bridge to IffleyDemo0 of 4 stops
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Collections
Finish a set, earn the badge.
Finish the walks a set needs and its badge is yours. Collect every badge for Freedom of the City. These are demo badges: in the app they're earned on the street, and later they'll be real enamel pins.
Freedom of the CityEvery badge0 of 6 badges
Matriculated0 of 3 walks
Last Orders0 of 3 walks
Film Locations0 of 2 walks
The Detective's Oxford0 of 3 walks
Storytellers0 of 3 walks
The River0 of 2 walks
Two stamps you can collect right here: play Try it to the end, and scroll the map down to Magdalen Bridge. The rest are demo walks, to show how the sets work. Tap any stamp or badge to see it up close. This demo passport is kept in your browser only (local storage) and nothing is sent to us. In the app, your passport is saved to your account.
