This new attraction located within the D-Wing of the former prison, is a fantastic introduction to the history of Oxford - (the city not the University) - and the stories of some of the Prison's former inmates.

As you walk through the tiny cells and atmospheric prison corridors, you hear all about the real people and events from the site’s turbulent past: the first Oxford teachings, the owners, visionaries, activists and inmates.

People like Marshall William Smith, the King’s prison keeper, who in the 1600s made Oxford Prison as feared and as notorious as Colditz; Mary Blandy a convicted murderess, who became an 18th-century celebrity; Jack Ketch, the public executioner and the man on which the Punch & Judy hangman character was modelled; and Anne Green, who survived her own hanging and narrowly escaped being anatomised by an Oxford medical student in 1650!

After your tour of the Prison there is the chance to climb the 101 narrow steps of the Saxon St George's Tower and enjoy the spectacular 360 degree panoramic views of the Oxford skyline.

Oxford Castle, (off New Road), Oxford, OX1 1AY
T: 01865 260666
www.oxfordcastleunlocked.co.uk

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An archaeological/ethnographic museum. The collection ranges from the unique to the common; the practical to the absurd. It's the only museum I can think of where one can see a opium pipe made of a Worcester sauce bottle, a lantern made of a blowfish, and a witch in a bottle.

www.prm.ox.ac.uk/

Parks Road, Oxford

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Britain's oldest public museum and still one of its best. Whether you're into antiquities or impressionists, there's something here for you.

Beaumont Street Tel: 01865 278000

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