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Oxford Shopping
(Oxford, England)



The city of Oxford is full of well-known high street shops and department stores, such as Marks and Spencer, Debenhams and Littlewoods, in and around central Oxford. There are also a number of specialist shops in Oxford, including jewellers, art galleries, craft shops, toy shops, antiques shops, gift shops and there are also countless clothes shops in Oxford, providing the perfect place for some serious fashion shopping.

Oxford's main shopping streets include Oxford High Street - full of a large number of independent shops and boutiques, Broad Street - with a number of bookstores, gift shops and art galleries, Queen Street and Cornmarket Street - located in the heart of Oxford's city centre, with department stores such as Boots, Allders and WHSmith, and shopping centres such as the Westgate Shopping Centre and the Clarendon, the Covered Market - dating back almost 300 years and full of a varied collection of stalls and interesting small shops, Gloucester Green - home to many regular open-air markets, and Little Clarendon Street - the centre of Oxford's street café culture and also containing many furniture, antiques stores and restaurants. Other major shopping areas include Walton Street, Jericho, St. Clements and Cowley Road shopping areas, located close to central Oxford and full of countless furniture stores, clothes boutiques and gift shops.




Visitors to Oxford particularly enjoy visiting the many specialist shops, which sell exclusive and unusual items. These shops in Oxford include Alice's Shop in Oxford's St. Aldates area, the shops at the Bodleian Library, the Oxford Store, the Oxford Information Centre, the Ashmolean Museum and the University of Oxford shop, selling the full range of Oxford University merchandise.

One of Oxford's most famous shops in Bibliophiles, a vast bookshop located on Broad Street, with more than 150,000 books located in the Norrington Room, beneath the Oxford Trinity college quadrangle, which is actually the largest number of books for sale in a single room in the whole world.

Oxford Shopping - Opening Hours - Oxford, England
Most shops in Oxford open seven days a week, throughout the year, opening around 09:00 until 17:30 or later. On Sunday, Oxford shopping opening hours are generally shorter than the rest of the week and are also often extended on Thursday evenings, closing around 20:00 to 21:00.

Oxford Shopping - Shops, Shopping Centres and Department Stores - Oxford, England
Here are some of the most popular shops, shopping centres and department stores in the Oxford area:

• Allders Of Oxford - 27 Westgate, Oxford, OX1 1LP, England
• Bicester Shopping Village - Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX6 7WD, England
• Boswells Of Oxford - 1-4 Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3AG, England
• Debenhams - Magdalen Street, Oxford OX1 3AA, England
• Harpers - 29-30 High Street, Chipping Norton, OX7 5AD, England
• Lewis Baker - 5-7 Bridge Street, Abingdon, OX14 3HN, England
• Littlewoods Stores - 19-23 Bridge Street, Banbury, OX16 5EA, England
• Marks & Spencer Plc - 13-18 Queen Street, Oxford OX1 1AB, England
• Pettits Of Wallingford - 46-50 St. Marys Street, Wallingford, OX10 0EY, England
• Pound Wise - 134 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JE, England
• Somerfield - 24 The Lane, Fritwell, Bicest, OX27 7QW, England
• Woolworths - 3 Templars Square, Cowley, Oxford, OX4 3XB, England

 
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