Travel to Oxford

Coming to Oxford from abroad, the best options are:

Flying to Heathrow
This is usually the best option for those flying long distance. There is an excellent direct bus service to Oxford (tell the driver you want to go to Gloucester Green bus station -- "Gloucester" is pronounced "gloster") with 2-3 buses per hour taking 80-90 minutes from the Heathrow Central Bus Station (Terminals 1-3) and Terminal 5. Those flying into Terminal 4 must first take a connecting underground train to the Central Bus Station.

Flying to Birmingham
This is a good option for European flights -- I prefer Birmingham to Heathrow because it is a much smaller airport. There is a regular train service to Oxford from the adjacent Birmingham International station. There are roughly 2 trains per hour and they take about an hour.

Other options are:

Flying to Gatwick: the direct bus service is less frequent and takes up to 2.5 hours

Flying to Luton or Stansted: two more airports near London but neither has convenient public transport links to Oxford

Eurostar train to St Pancras station in London: onward travel to Oxford requires a 30-minute underground train journey to Paddington station, then an hour's train journey to Oxford

Once you get to Oxford, this map shows the location of the bus station (block C6) and train station (block A6) and all of the colleges and departments within the university.

Additional information is available from:

University webpages with maps and travel info
Oxford City webpages
Visit Oxford webpages

For those visiting the Oxford-Man Institute, the OMI location is marked on this Google Maps link.

The building is brand new, four storeys high and set back from the road. The parking is underground with an entrance ramp at the front which slopes down under the building. There's a big wrought iron gate with eagles on the two gate posts. If you wait there, security will lower the bollards for you to drive through and down the ramp. At the bottom of the ramp you need to turn left. Don't follow the Visitor Parking signs which take you to the right -- they're for visitors to the apartments which are part of the same complex.