The city of Oxford is located in the county of Oxfordshire in South East England. The rivers Thames and Cherwell run through the city and join just south of the center of it. This large city has a population of around 165, 000. Oxford is the location of the oldest university in the English-speaking world; the University of Oxford. You will find that this is the university that the poet Oscar Wilde attended from 1874 to 1878.

Car making is part of the long history of Oxford and the BMW MINI is produced in a suburb of Oxford; Cowley. The regional brewery was known as Morrells, and it was founded in 1743 by a man named Richard Tawney. It didn't gain the Morrell name until the brothers, Mark and James Morrell, became partners and eventually owners. The brewery closed in 1998, though the beer brand names were taken over by another brewery.

Commercial areas are plentiful and so are the number of theaters and cinemas. Shopping and entertainment can be found around every corner. For those interested in viewing landmarks, there are also plenty of those in Oxford. From the Carfax Tower in the town center and the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, the spires of the city can be viewed with ease. These spires are so plentiful that the town is known as the "city of dreaming spires".

Shopping at the historic Covered Market shouldn't be missed, as well as perusing the two malls found in the city center; The Westgate Centre and The Clarendon Centre. A popular tourist attraction is the Blackwell Bookshop, for all those traveling bibliophiles.

There is also the Ashmolean Museum, the Oxford Botanic Garden, the Pitt Rivers Museum, and the Bodleian Library. In order to view all of these with ease, there are numerous buses that service the Oxford area.