Each member must make a separate booking as we have a limited number of places for each excursion.
If a member would like to bring a friend, please give the friend's name but use the member's email address so we can allocate the booking correctly.
These excursions are only for OAHS members but if you would like to join OAHS, please see our
Joining Details Page
To see any bookings you have already made, please
log in to view your membership details and scroll down to Event Bookings where you can see all bookings you have made.
If you need to cancel, please email
excursions@oahs.org.uk
Confirmation and joining details will be sent by email. Please watch for announcements on the website, and make sure that we have your email address - you can check the details we hold for you by
logging in. There will not be any paper booking forms.
If you have any queries please contact the Excursion Secretary:
excursions@oahs.org.uk.
Disability Policy
Members with limited mobility must contact the Excursions Secretary, email:
excursions@oahs.org.uk) before booking an excursion to discuss whether special access arrangements can be made to buildings or locations. The Society will do its best to accommodate special needs, but reserves the right to refuse access to its events where, in the judgement of the Committee, the safety of an individual or of other participants is put at risk.
A Tour of the village of Appleton
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Date: 17 July 2024
Time: 14.00-16.00
Leader: Trevor Rowley
Location: Appleton
Cost: Free
Options: Tea and Cakes at The Plough
Option Cost: £6.50
No of Places: 20
Closing Date for Bookings: 12 July 2024
Bookings for this event are now closed
A History Walk round the village of Appleton, to include the exterior of the manor house and (hopefully) a visit to Northmoor Lock with one of only five surviving paddle and rymer weirs in the country. Tea and cakes available at The Plough, Appleton for a charge of £6.50, bookable in advance and payable on the day.
Well-known local historian, Trevor Rowley, is also a resident of the village and runs regular courses at Oxford University's Department of Continuing Education.
Photo: David Clark
Historic Swedish Ironwork in Oxford
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Date: 28 July 2024
Time: 09.00-11.00
Leader: David Clark
Location: Oxford
Cost: Free
No of Places: 15
Closing Date for Bookings: 25 July 2024
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A tour of Oxford’s surviving examples of historic Swedish ironwork, from early C18 to the early C20, viewing the transition from wrought to cast iron and various fashions in design.
David Clark is a local archaeologist with a special interest in ironwork. He has been prominent in the Oxfordshire Buildings Record and OAHS, and is a former President of the Vernacular Architecture Group.
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Date: 15 September 2024
Time: 14.00
Leader: Geoffrey Tyack
Location: St Mary's Church, Iffley
Cost: Free
No of Places: 20
Closing Date for Bookings: 12 September 2024
This event is now fully booked
Geoffrey Tyack will lead a walk around the exterior and interior of St Mary's Church, Iffley for approx 1 hour. Then the tour will continue to walk around the village for a further hour to look at the older houses and two former school - one of which is now the church hall.
Iffley church dates from the late 12th and early 13th-century, and is one of the finest parish churches of that date in England. There is some fascinating and well-preserved Romanesque sculpture both inside and outside, good Victorian and 20th-century stained glass, including a window by John Piper, and excellent examples of contemporary church art by Roger Wagner and others.
Refreshments will be available at the recently re-opened pub or the Isis Farmhouse which is a short walk over Iffley Lock
Geoffrey Tyack is the current President of OAHS. He is an architectural historian, and has written extensively on the architecture of Oxford and Oxfordshire.