Daytrips or weekend trips from Oxford

Stratford upon Avon by train or bus is a good day trip. Take a quided tour of Shakespeare's house and don't miss Anne Hathaway's cottage, (Shakespeare's wife). Good pubs and shopping and of course the theatre.

Go to London for the day on the Oxford Tube. This is a bus service that runs into central London every 20 minutes and costs about £20 return. It runs all through the night as well, although after midnight it leaves less often, every 40 minutes I think.

Warwick castle, by bus or train, is very close and a wonderful example of medieval architecture with moat and drawbridge. Waxwork exibition of life in medieval times.

Windsor, again very close. Tour of castle and town, river trip.

The cotswolds. Go for a weekend, about 40 minutes by car but accessible by bus and train from Oxford. So many lovely villages to visit. Bourton on the Water is beautiful, Stow on the Wold, Morton on the Marsh and don't miss Broadway. You can't go wrong. There should be bus services between the villages but check with the Tourist Information Office in Oxford before leaving.

Bath. Take the train and do it in a day, but preferably stay a night because there is much to see and do. Visit the Roman baths and taste the healing waters, quite disgusting actually. Royal Crescent in Bath is a wonderful example of Georgian architecture. The whole place is quite special.

Dorchester on Thames is just outside Oxford for an afternoon visit to the Abbey and nice meal in the George Hotel (an old coaching Inn

Blenheim palace (where Churchill was born)in the town of Woodstock (the town is also lovely. Bus from Oxford shouldn't take more than about 40 minutes if not less.

If you were going in the summer I would suggest hiring a boat for a weekend on the Thames but perhaps not in November.

Hope you have fun, Shoni

Take the train 15 minutes or so to Banbury to see the Banbury Cross from the nursery rhyme..

Shoni has listed most of the "easy" places. I'd also add Cardiff Wales. It's on the same train line as Bath and well worth a day or two.