The UK’s most walkable city has been revealed as somewhere that’s constantly named one of the most beautiful places in the country.
A new study for tourists by language learning site Preply dived into UK cities, analysing the distance and time it takes to get between their five biggest attractions.
The site named Oxford the UK’s most walkable city as there are just 1.1 miles between the city’s five biggest tourist attractions, and you could get between them in just 22 minutes.
Preply cites most of Oxford’s biggest attractions as being in or around the university, so it makes sense that the city tops the study.
It requires just 2,310 steps to reach its five most popular attractions: the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Pitt Rivers Museum, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, and the hallowed halls of Oxford University.
The Bodleian Libraries are a collection of 26 libraries serving the University. The main library is one of the oldest in Europe, founded in 1602.
The Oxford University Museum of Natural History is a museum displaying many of the university’s natural history specimens. Inside is the Pitt Rivers Museum, displaying the university’s archaeological and anthropological collections.
The Ashmolean Museum was Britain’s first public museum and the world’s second university museum, opening in 1683. It was built to house the cabinet of curiosities that Elias Ashmole gave to the university in 1677.
And arguably Oxford’s most famous attraction is its university. The University of Oxford is made up of 43 constituent colleges with buildings scattered throughout the city.
There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world’s second-oldest university in continuous operation.
The city has also been frequently named among the UK’s most beautiful, with Time Out including it earlier this year in a list of the county’s prettiest places to live.