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Oxford Harry Potter Insights entry to Divinity School PUBLIC Tour

2 Hours Round trip from Oxford Easy pace

The journey

Trip highlights
  • 01 Visit the Divinity School film site at the Bodleian Library
  • 02 Discover Oxford landmarks including the Radcliffe Camera and University Church
  • 03 Hear Harry Potter film stories alongside Oxford university history
  • 04 Family-friendly walking tour for Muggles of all ages
  • 05 Pass by multiple Oxford colleges and famous city sights
  • 06 Replacement entry to New College on dates when Divinity School is closed

Step into Oxford’s wizarding world on a family-friendly walking tour that blends Harry Potter film locations with the real stories of Oxford University. Explore the city’s historic streets, hear tales of student life and literary connections, and visit the Divinity School at the Bodleian Library, used on screen as part of Hogwarts.

Along the way, you’ll pass many of Oxford’s most famous landmarks, including the Radcliffe Camera and the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, while your guide shares film trivia and local insight. On dates when the Divinity School is closed, the tour instead includes entry to New College.

Step into Oxford’s wizarding world on a family-friendly walking tour that blends Harry Potter film locations with the real stories of Oxford University.

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At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 2 Hours
Tour type Shared
Activity level Easy
Accommodation Not included
Transport Not included
Wheelchair access No
City Oxford
Languages English

Day by day

The itinerary

1
Day 01

See inside Divinity School film site at Bodleian Library- worth £2.50 entry fee included in your ticket.

NB we do NOT visit inside the medieval library as it does not anyway permit private guiding inside. If you do wish to see inside Duke Humfreys library, then you can book tickets for that directly from the Bodleian website but they only permit entry to children aged 12+ or adults.We also see and describe many stories about Oxford university and student life and we pass by and introduce most of the famous sights of Oxford during the tour eg Radcliffe Camera, University Church, Bridge of Sighs and multiple colleges of the university.We also see and describe many stories about Oxford university and student life and we pass by and introduce most of the famous sights of Oxford during the tour eg Radcliffe Camera, University Church, Bridge of Sighs and multiple colleges of the university.This is one of multiple famous Oxford sights or colleges which we pass by and introduce on toursWe briefly introduce a range of colleges or sightseeing spots such as this one, on our route. We introduce stories about the making of the Goblet of Fire, filmed at New college. If you wish to visit New college after our tour ends, you can visit New college until 4.30pm. It's open every day except in winter, it's closed on Mondays.

Notice: on any dates that Divinity school is closed, we instead replace it with entry to visit New college which is worth £8 entry fee.We briefly introduce a range of colleges or sightseeing spots such as this one. The alleyway to this old pub looks like Knockturn alleyway! The pub also is known as Oxford's Three Broomsticks. Indeed Robbie Coltrane, Hagrid, and his friends used to drink here, when they were filming.We briefly introduce a range of colleges or sightseeing spots such as this one, on our route.We briefly introduce a range of colleges or sightseeing spots such as this one, on our route.We briefly introduce a range of colleges or sightseeing spots such as this one, on our route. This college is where JK Rowling applied to study at Oxford!We briefly introduce a range of colleges or sightseeing spots such as this one, on our route. This is Tolkien's college and it is also connected to JK Rowling too.We briefly introduce a range of colleges or sightseeing spots such as this one, on our route.We briefly introduce a range of colleges or sightseeing spots such as this one, on our route. We check out the Hogwarts cakes inside the market.We briefly introduce a range of colleges or sightseeing spots such as this one, on our route. This college is where the writer of, 'Dr Seuss' studied.We briefly introduce a range of colleges or sightseeing spots such as this one, on our route.We briefly introduce a range of colleges or sightseeing spots such as this one, on our route.We briefly introduce a range of colleges or sightseeing spots such as this one, on our route. This church is where CS Lewis preached and we will look for Mr Tumnis outside it!

The route

Where you'll travel

Tour route map
Round trip from Oxford 1 city · 2 Hours

The fine print

Trip details

What's Included

  • Entry fee worth £3 per person is included to the Divinity school at the Bodleian library.
  • Please see the section titled 'Additional Information' or 'Voucher Details' for info on any and all dates on which due to partial or full closures of film sites venues that are known at this time.
  • See inside the Divinity school film site at Bodleian library + see many super sights from outside
  • On any dates when Divinity school closed, we'll offer entry inside New college but at extra £10 cost as it costs an extra £10 more then Divinity school to enter too.

What's Not Included

  • This tour does NOT include entry to Christ church- we run that as a separate tour!
  • This tour also does NOT include entry to Duke Humfreys library at the Bodleian library- contrary to the advertising claims of some of our competitors loosely written descriptions, no tour company and no tour guides at all may ever enter inside the actual library to guide inside. The only way you can see inside the library, is if you book a library staff guided tour for adults or children from aged 11 upwards only, via the Bodleian library's own website.
  • On dates when Divinity school closed, tour running instead to New college at extra £10 per person Please see notice of 2026 published Divinity school closures below...
  • Feb 28, March 7, May 15 and 16 and 23 of 2026

Know before you go

  • WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
  • STROLLER OR PRAM ACCESSIBLE
  • ANIMALS OR PETS ALLOWED
  • PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NEARBY
  • Please arrive 5 minutes early for your tour at our meeting point.
  • REFUNDS or RESCHEDULE REQUESTS Given with at least 24 hours notice before tour starts
  • Infants must not sit on laps
  • Infant seats unavailable
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Tour lasts 90 minutes and includes entry to the Divinity school film site at the Bodleian library.
  • Please arrive 5 minutes early for your tour at our meeting point. If you arrive more than 5 minutes later than the scheduled tour, then you will likely forfeit and lose your booking as it interrupts the guide and other customers, if we are trying to find you after a guide has started and left the meeting point.
  • Please note that all the film sites are private venues. Thus, while we do always plan to avoid disappointments by checking ahead for published closures, occasionally venues may close without notice. If we can't provide access to film site locations on a specific date, you will either be offered the tour at a revised start time or adjacent date or refunded in full or upon your agreement, you may be booked onto a different tour that is available Although we do always enter the Divinity school of the Bodleian library (unless it is closed to public for special occasions), please note the tour does not visit inside the medieval library upstairs. In fact, no tour operators -local or otherwise- are permitted to take tours into the actual library, since it is a working copyright library.
  • On any day that the Divinity School film site is closed, we will try to find alternative colleges for you to visit too.
  • Please see 'Exclusions' section for details of dates of any known published closures.

Logistics

Meeting & route

Meeting point
Oxford, GB
Tour start
Oxford, GB
Tour ends at the same location as the start point.
End of the journey

Your 2 hours finish where they began, in Oxford.

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