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Botanic Garden

Britain's oldest botanic garden, by the river, with glasshouses and a walled garden from 1621.

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Open
Every day
Price
Paid
Time Needed
1 hour
Address
Rose Lane, Oxford OX1 4AZDirections
Getting There
At the end of the High Street, by Magdalen Bridge.

Why Go

Founded to grow plants for medicine, the garden holds some 5,000 kinds of plants in its beds and glasshouses, opposite Magdalen College.

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