Visit Wolvercote Common Places

Welcome to Visit Wolvercote Common Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Wolvercote Common

  

Wolvercote Common Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Wolvercote Common

---

Wolvercote Common history

---

Wolvercote Common has been a Site of Special Scientific Interest since 1955. Grazing on the common was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. Commoners’ rights were first confirmed in 1279.

You can visit Wolvercote Common places with Walkfo Wolvercote Common to hear history at Wolvercote Common’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Wolvercote Common has 209 places to visit in our interactive Wolvercote Common map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Wolvercote Common, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Wolvercote Common places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Wolvercote Common & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 209 audio facts unique to Wolvercote Common places in an interactive Wolvercote Common map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Wolvercote Common Places Map
209 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

---

–

Wolvercote Common historic spots	Wolvercote Common tourist destinations	Wolvercote Common plaques	Wolvercote Common geographic features
Walkfo Wolvercote Common tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Wolvercote Common

  

Best Wolvercote Common places to visit

---

Wolvercote Common has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Wolvercote Common’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Wolvercote Common’s information audio spots:

Parson’s Pleasure Parson’s Pleasure in the University Parks at Oxford, England, was a secluded area for male-only nude bathing on the River Cherwell . It was located next to the path on the way to Mesopotamia at the south-east corner of the Parks . The facility closed in 1991 and the area now forms part of the parks .

Dyson Perrins Laboratory The Dyson Perrins Laboratory is in the science area of the University of Oxford . It was the main centre for research into organic chemistry from 1916 until 2003 . Parts of the building were used as teaching laboratories in which undergraduate students were trained in practical organic chemistry .

Clarendon Laboratory The Clarendon Laboratory is part of the Department of Physics at Oxford University . It houses atomic and laser physics, condensed matter physics, and biophysics groups . The Oxford Centre for Quantum Computation is also housed in the laboratory .

Farmington Institute The Farmington Institute is based at Harris Manchester College, a constituent college of the University of Oxford . The Institute’s aim is to support, encourage and improve Christian education in schools, colleges and universities .

Holywell Music Room The Holywell Music Room is the city of Oxford’s chamber music hall . It is said to be the oldest purpose-built music room in Europe, and hence Britain’s first concert hall .

Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford The Department of Engineering Science is part of the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division . The main building is the tall 1960s Thom Building that dominates the local landscape, especially the view from the University Parks to the east .

Denys Wilkinson Building The Denys Wilkinson Building is a prominent 1960s building in Oxford, England . It was designed by Philip Dowson at Arup in 1967 .

Indian Institute The Indian Institute is at the north end of Catte Street on the corner with Holywell Street and facing down Broad Street from the east . Sir Monier Monier-Williams started the Institute in Oxford in 1883 to provide training for the Indian Civil Service .

Oxford University Computing Services Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) until 2012 provided the central Information Technology services for the University of Oxford . The service was based at 7-19 Banbury Road in central north Oxford, England, near the junction with Keble Road . OUCS became part of IT Services when the new department was created in August 2012 .

Weston Library Weston Library is part of the Bodleian Library, the main research library of the University of Oxford . It is located in the former New Bodlean Library building on the corner of Broad Street .

Visit Wolvercote Common plaques