Covered Market
High street. (http://www.oxfordcity.co....) oxford has the oldest covered market in england. unusual small shops, including a chocolate shop, cake shop, fine butchers, hat shop, florists, glassware, and charming cafes.
University of Oxford Shop
the University of Oxford Shop, 106 The High Street, +044 01865 247414, fax +044 01865 724379. (http://www.oushop.com/) M-Sa 9AM-5.30PM, Bank Holidays and Sundays in June 11AM-4PM, Sundays in July and August 11AM-5PM. Since 1990, the official outlet for official university souvenirs and gifts
A large number of shops in the city centre specialise in selling the ubiquitous Oxford University range of souvenirs. One is official, the others less so, but all do a roaring trade in T-shirts, sweaters, calendars and paraphernalia:
Books
Blackwell's Books
48-51 broad street opposite the sheldonian theatre - founded in 1879, blackwell's main oxford shop is a veritable tourist attraction in itself, the vast 10,000 square foot norrington room excavated beneath trinity college gardens laying claim to being the largest space dedicated to book sales in europe. another 9 speciality branches of this oxford institution dot the city.
Oxford University Press Bookshop
116 high street, +44 1865 242 913, fax +44 1865 241 701 (http://www.oup.co.uk/bookshop/) - stocks a wide variety of books published by oxford university press.
Unsurprisingly for a university city, Oxford is noted for both antiquarian, specialist and new books.