Bodleian Library
Guide
Photo: Remi Mathis · CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
FreeSightAllow 30–60 minPut together by AI from open data
What you'll see
A quiet stone quadrangle with the old subjects painted in gold over its doors and a gate tower stacked with all five classical styles of column.
A brief history
Thomas Bodley refounded the university library in 1602; as a legal deposit library it can claim a copy of every book published in the UK.
Tips
- Best time
- Weekday mornings
- Cost
- Free; tours extra
- Allow
- 30–60 min
- Free days
- The quad and exhibitions are free
- Hours
- The quad and exhibitions are usually open daily in the daytime, shorter on Sundays (check)
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Good to know
- Area
- The centre and the colleges: Carfax, the Covered Market, Christ Church and the cobbled lanes around the Radcliffe Camera.
- Access
- Partly step-free
- Indoors or out
- Partly indoors
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