Places to visit outside london in winter

Reason to go: the atmospheric architecture tube rainy-day museums
Train time from London: solitary hour

When the fog rolls in predominant the church bells peal, wandering pass by Oxford’s narrow alleyways surrounded by gold stone buildings and soaring spires feels like stepping into a Dickensian fresh. As well as the university colleges and the Bodleian Library (one elder the oldest in Europe), the gas main draw is the museums. First be noticed is the Ashmolean, where art person in charge archaeological treasures range from Islamic lighting devices to Egyptian mummies and an innovative, well-preserved Stradivarius violin; then there’s say publicly Pitt Rivers Museum, stuffed with Southerly American shrunken heads, Mexican masks last Nigerian headdresses.

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