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Alice in Wonderland Walking Tour
Oxford

Follow Charles Dodgson from a golden afternoon on the river to the real doors, gardens, and faces of Christ Church that became Wonderland.

8 stops · 2.2 km

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Every Stop Has a Story

The Folly Bridge Wharf

On July 4, 1862, Charles Dodgson set off from this wharf with Robinson Duckworth and the three Liddell sisters on a five-mile rowing trip to Godstow, improvising the story of a bored girl named Alice falling down a rabbit hole, a tale so successful that Alice Liddell begged him to write it down.

Alice's Sweet Shop

Charles Dodgson knew this Victorian grocery, then called the Old Sheep Shop, and its cantankerous elderly shopkeeper so well that he transformed it into Through the Looking-Glass's pivotal scene, where a knitting sheep sits behind the counter and the shop itself turns into a boat on a river.

The Lecturer's Rooms

In these rooms, Charles Dodgson hand-wrote the original manuscript of Alice's Adventures Under Ground as a gift for Alice Liddell, working amid a clutter of mechanical puzzles and a private darkroom where he photographed the Liddell family and Victorian figures like Alfred Lord Tennyson.

The Cheshire Cat Tree

Charles Dodgson could see this ancient Holm Oak's thick, twisting branches from the windows of his own study, and its dense foliage created the perfect disappearing spot for the story's mischievous Cheshire Cat.

The Rabbit Hole Entrance

This unassuming door in the Deanery Garden wall inspired the opening of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, where Alice discovers a tiny door to a beautiful garden she cannot yet reach, a scene Charles Dodgson based on watching the real Alice Liddell peer through this very gate when she was forbidden from entering.

Alice's Window

Installed in 1982 to mark the 150th anniversary of Charles Dodgson's birth, this stained-glass window in the Great Hall depicts the real Alice Liddell surrounded by the Mad Hatter and the White Rabbit, hidden among geometric symbols that quietly nod to Dodgson's day job as an Oxford mathematician.

The Author's Parish

Charles Dodgson, an ordained deacon of the Church of England, regularly attended services and occasionally preached in this fourteenth-century church, whose door to the North Garden is carved with two griffins and a central face that closely resembles Mr. Tumnus from The Chronicles of Narnia.

The Dodo's Remains

Because his stammer made him introduce himself as 'Do-do-Dodgson,' Charles Dodgson is widely believed to have cast himself as the Dodo in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a bird now represented in this museum by the most complete dodo remains in the world.

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