New College Oxford Harry Potter Insights PRIVATE TOUR Daily

4.9(70)2 hFree cancellationBy Visit Oxford Tours

About this activity

Test your spell-craft & knowledge of all things Potter with our guide. We are the original Harry Potter in Oxford walking tour- find out why many others copied our success by joining our tour to find out all about how Oxford inspired Hogwarts and JK Rowling's influences and loads of insights about the actors, the producers and of course about Oxford too.

This tour includes entry to arguably one of the most appealing and one of the oldest and likely most haunted colleges called New college. At New college, you can marvel at the gorgeous medieval dining hall, chapel, cloisters, quadrangle and the medieval wall of the city. In the cloisters and garden is where several scenes were filmed in the Goblet of Fire,

Includes £12 entry fee to New college.

NOTICE: see what's Not Included section for partial closures!

10.45am TOURS TO BE BOOKED BY 20.30!

What's included

✓Entry worth £3 per person to Divinity school at Bodleian library film site, as & when open too
✓Entry worth £12 to New college per person

Not included

✕This tour does NOT visit Christ church as we run that as a separate & more expensive tour
✕Partial or full closures 2026 at New college listed below...
✕New college closed on Dec 12 plus Dec 23 till January 4 +
✕7th and 14th November 2026- Cloisters closed from 12:00 to 3:00pm
✕27th February 2027- Cloisters closed from 12:00 to 3:00pm
✕Please see notice of 2026 Divinity school closures below...
✕October 17+18 +20+ 30+31 and November 1+ 6 + 7 +13 + 14 of 2026
✕Divinity school will be closed in 2027 on the following dates below...
✕Jan 23, Feb 27, March 6, May 14 +15 +22 of 2027
✕No tour companies can ever guide inside medieval Duke Humfreys Bodleian Library

Meeting and pickup

Meet your guide wearing red lanyard and or Hogwarts gown. Meeting next to our black sign, OUTSIDE Oxford Tourist info centre, 15 Broad street, OX1 3AS. This is also next to the Oxfam shop which has a green sign above its shop.

Good to know

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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.

Cancellation policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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