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Night at the museum

1 Macdonald Randolph Oxford

British crime drama aficionados know this 1864 hotel primarily as the home of the Morse Bar, named after Colin Dexter’s fictional detective Inspector Morse and featured regularly in the popular TV adaptation of the books.

For museum lovers, however, there is just one reason to stay here: the views across Beaumont Street to

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