
CS Lewis & Tolkien Tour with Magdalen Entry Public tour 13.45
Enjoy a tour exploring the lives, works and ideas of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and their circle. This tour is focused for an adult audience. Children may join it…
Operated by Visit Oxford Tours
Overview
Enjoy a tour exploring the lives, works and ideas of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and their circle. This tour is focused for an adult audience. Children may join it but the private tour option is more suitable. 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.
What’s included
- 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.
Not included
- On any other new dates when Magdalen college is closed, we will always forewarn you here....
- Magdalen is usually closed for Xmas about Dec 22 to Dec 31- no entry possible on those dates!
- On dates outside Christmas or outside university graduation dates, we visit an alternative college
- Magdalen 2026 closures includes Feb 24 and June 26, 27, 28 and Sep 25 and Oct 24
- Magdalen college will be open from 10am to 1pm only on Thursday September 24th 2026
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