9 entries across places, people, and walks.
The real shop that inspired Tenniel's illustration in Through the Looking-Glass — now selling all things Alice.
The bench at the back of the Botanic Garden where, in the closing chapter of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Lyra and Will promise to sit at noon on Midsummer's day every year.
Where the Inklings met — Tolkien and Lewis's local on St Giles'.
C.S. Lewis's Oxford home from 1930, built 1922 on the site of a former brickworks. Now the C.S. Lewis Foundation Study Centre.
A brass-plaqued bench in University Parks, dedicated to J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973) by the Tolkien Centenary Conference in 1992 — accompanied by two trees said to represent Telperion and Laurelin, the Two Trees of Valinor.
The site, in the Oxford Botanic Garden, of the Pinus nigra under which J.R.R. Tolkien 'often spent his time reposing'.
City cemetery opened in 1889. The Roman Catholic section contains the grave of J.R.R. Tolkien and his wife Edith, headstone inscribed Beren and Lúthien.
A short central-Oxford loop through the locations of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, ending at the bench in the Botanic Garden where Lyra and Will keep their promise.
A circuit of the Oxford addresses, colleges and pubs that frame J.R.R. Tolkien's working life — Exeter, Pembroke, Merton, the Botanic Garden tree, the University Parks memorial bench, the Eagle and Child, ending at his grave at Wolvercote.