Alice's shop

In Through the Looking Glass, Alice meets an old Sheep who is knitting and serving in a shop. Tenniel who illustrated the book, drew a mirror-image of a litle grocery shop in St Aldates. It is now Alice's Shop and sells Alice souvenirs.

Visit Alice Liddell’s favourite sweetshop, the ‘old sheep shop’ in the story, and collect a FREE bookmark for Alice's Day*.

*offer valid on 10th July 2010 while stocks last.

Friday 9th July: River pilgrimage walk, leaving from outside the shop at 7pm
A FREE 90-minute, 2-mile upstream pilgrimage following the route of the famous rowing trip of 4 July 1862 towards Godstow, where the phenomenon of ‘Alice’ had its birth. Starting near the site of the original ancient ‘Oxenford’, the river towpath passes remnants of Oxford’s industrial past, before a largely rural route encompasses a river lock, the site of Osney Abbey (inspiration for one of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales), and a Victorian bathing spot near the junction with the Oxford Canal. This is followed by the extraordinary expanse of Port Meadow, where lies the hamlet of Binsey (and The Perch Inn), where the walk ends.  Binsey’s diminutive church and ’treacle well’ - the destination, like Osney and Godstow, of countless pilgrims of the past – is a short distance away; guidance is unnecessary, but can be arranged if desired.

This tour will leave at 7pm to reach The Perch, Binsey in time for their evening screening of Tim Burton's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Organised by Oxford Water Walks