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New College Oxford Harry Potter Insights PRIVATE TOUR Daily

2 Hours Round trip from Oxford Easy pace

The journey

Trip highlights
  • 01 Private 2-hour Harry Potter-themed walking tour in Oxford
  • 02 Explore New College with entry included
  • 03 See medieval cloisters, quadrangle, chapel, hall, and gardens
  • 04 Learn how Oxford inspired Hogwarts and J.K. Rowling
  • 05 Finish outside the Divinity School at the Bodleian
  • 06 Pass by other famous Oxford sites along the way

Step into Oxford’s medieval streets and discover the places that helped shape the world of Harry Potter on this private walking tour. With your guide, explore how Oxford inspired Hogwarts while hearing insights into the films, the city, and the university setting behind some of the series’ most memorable locations.

The experience includes entry to New College, where you can visit the medieval dining hall, chapel, cloisters, quadrangle, gardens, and city wall. The tour also finishes outside the Divinity School at the Bodleian, another well-known film site, with the option to enter independently after the tour.

The experience includes entry to New College, where you can visit the medieval dining hall, chapel, cloisters, quadrangle, gardens, and city wall.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 2 Hours
Tour type Private
Activity level Easy
Accommodation Not included
Transport Not included
Wheelchair access Yes
City Oxford
Languages Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Day by day

The itinerary

1
Day 01

We typically spend about 30 minutes+ here to see the medieval cloisters film site plus the medieval quadrangle and walls plus the chapel, the hall and the gardens.

Entry worth £8 per person is included in the ticket.

Divinity school at the Bodleian is NOT included but we end outside there

Entry worth £2.50 per person is NOT included to the Divinity school film site at the Bodleian library but it is now anyway only open to self guided entry, so we can no longer guide inside there. The tours finish outside its entrance and you can choose to enter yourselves self guided for £2.50 extra cost. 

Notice: no guides, nor any guided tour companies have ever been permitted to guide inside the medieval Duke Humfreys library at the Bodleian Library, so the library itself is NOT included on our tour.

New college entry included in tour

We spent usually about 45 minutes here

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This college is where JK Rowling applied to study at Oxford but was not unfortunately accepted.

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 worth from £12 per person to New college film site.
  • See exclusions section for details of any published partial closures at New college.

What's Not Included

  • This tour does NOT visit Christ church as we run that as a separate & more expensive tour.
  • This tour does NOT include entry to Divinity school film site at the Bodleian as that venue no longer permits guiding inside. It costs £3 entry. We finish outside there and so you can choose to just get tickets and enter there after the tour ends.
  • New college partial closure of cloisters- any such dates, if you book, you will immediately be advised within minutes or hours of your booking alert being received. You will then be given the choice to cancel for refund or continue or adapt tour to instead visit another venue.
  • Typical Christmas closures of New college:
  • New college is typically closed from December 23 to January 4
  • 2026 closures:
  • Saturday 21st March - New College closed all day
  • 9 May - New College closed
  • 15th May - New college Cloisters only is closed from 2:30-5:30pm only
  • 23 May- New college is closed
  • 17 June- New college is closed
  • 4th July - Cloisters closed from 1:45pm, full college closure from 4:00p
  • 10th July - Cloisters closed from 1:45pm, full college closure from 4:00pm
  • 18 July- New college is closed
  • 1 Aug- New college is closed
  • 25 and 26 September- New college is closed
  • 7th November - New college Cloisters only closed from 12:00 to 3:00pm
  • 14th November - New college Cloisters only closed from 12:00 to 3:00pm
  • 12 December- New college is closed
  • 2027 closures:
  • 27th February -New college Cloisters only closed from 12:00 to 3:00pm

Know before you go

  • WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
  • STROLLER OR PRAM ACCESSIBLE
  • ANIMALS OR PETS ALLOWED
  • PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NEARBY
  • INFO FOR DRIVERS AND PARKING:
  • If you are driving, then please allow extra 30-60 minutes over whatever time you think it will take you to get here. Oxford is NOT car friendly and it is congested roads and hard to find parking spaces....unless you park at the sign posted 'park and rides' on edge of town on any major road into the city and hop on their buses into city centre.
  • The park and ride buses leave every 15 or every 30 minutes and take anything from 10 min to 30 min (depending on traffic) to reach city centre. So if you are going to drive, then please assume you should be aiming to park your car about one hour before your tour starts.
  • Please be aware that the tour all takes place OUTSIDE and as British weather is unpredictable, please make sure you dress for all weather, including rain.
  • What to expect, in case of rain? Plus about same day cancellations of the tour by the tour operator:
  • Our contact phone number is.

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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