{"id":998,"date":"2018-07-20T09:39:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T09:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/?p=998"},"modified":"2018-07-04T09:42:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T09:42:14","slug":"visit-oxford-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/2018\/07\/visit-oxford-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit Oxford Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Travel back in time to Oxford Castle. Your kids will love this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\">family day out<\/a> and hopefully they will take in all the history.<\/p>\n<p>This site is packed to the brim with history; where to start?! Begin by climbing the Saxon St.George\u2019s Tower. This is one of the oldest buildings in Oxford with 360\u00b0 panoramic views around the city. Then drop right back down to the depths of a 900-year-old crypt, the only surviving remains of St. George\u2019s Chapel. Next explore the insides of an 18th-century debtor\u2019s tower, before winding your way through the prison d-wing. Last but not least? Scale the mound of the 11th-century motte-and-bailey castle. <\/p>\n<p>Climb one of the oldest buildings in Oxford with 360\u00b0 panoramic views of the city<\/p>\n<p>Explore prison cells and a 900-year-old crypt<\/p>\n<p>Guided tours give visitors a true-to-life look into the history of the area<\/p>\n<p>This was a site of incarceration dating back to 1071 and gives a look into the lives of real people: the owners, visionaries, activists and inmates of Oxford. Tours run every 20 minutes but you\u2019ll have plenty of time to explore the site under your own steam. Plus be sure to get some yummy lunch at the Castleyard Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travel back in time to Oxford Castle. Your kids will love this family day out and hopefully they will take in all the history. This site is packed to the brim with history; where to start?! Begin by climbing the Saxon St.George\u2019s Tower. This is one of the oldest buildings in Oxford with 360\u00b0 panoramic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/2018\/07\/visit-oxford-castle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Visit Oxford Castle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,168],"tags":[87,62,149,61,122],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoor-adventure","category-travel","tag-family","tag-fun","tag-half-term","tag-kids","tag-trips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiddyzone.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}