Day-time in Oxford
Shopping
Explore the Covered Market, Oxford’s unique indoor market created in 1772. Today’s market is a lively mix of small shops selling everything from handmade hats and gifts to Oxford sausages or antiquarian books.
Smaller streets of interest include Little Clarendon Street, Turl Street, Golden Cross and Gloucester Green – all with a nice selection of one-off gift shops, boutiques, jewellers or other independent shops of character.
Browse the largest display of books for sale in one room anywhere in the world – the Norrington Room at the family firm Blackwell’s Bookshops, Broad Street.
The High Street, known to locals as “the High”, offers a range of unique boutiques, antique shops, bookshops and gift shops amongst beautiful historic buildings.