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| Arriving in Oxford, we spent ages driving around looking for a place to park. It was 'open week' or something like that, and the place was swarming with prospective students, in orientation groups being shown round the town. Is it me or do uni students look younger each year? Anyway. At the last moment we found a place to park, looked up and discovered we were across from the Eagle and Child. |
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| As the sign says, this is where the Inklings met for many years. The more regular members of the Inklings included J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. "Jack" Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams, Tolkien's son, Christopher, Lewis's elder brother Warren, Roger Lancelyn Green, Adam Fox, Hugo Dyson, Nevill Coghill amongst others. Guests included Dorothy Sayers. |
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| On the way out we drove through the Oxford suburbs past 20 Northmoor Road. During his time at Pembroke College Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and the first two volumes of The Lord of the Rings, whilst living at 20 Northmoor Road inNorth Oxford (where a blue plaque was placed in 2002). |
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| Librarian heaven! The Bodleian Library, the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, 1602 in its current form. |
