Start: Outside 8th Day Restaurant, 111 Oxford Road, All Saints

It’s the biggest centre of learning in Europe – colleges and universities, ivy-clad quads, red-brick labs, dreaming spires, and thousands of students populating a corridor of academia and accomplishment. Its history is studded with Nobel Prize winners.

Here are two of the greatest sites of achievement in history: the laboratory where Rutherford first explained the atom and the room where the world’s first computer ran. Come with us from the edge of town through the university quarter, ending (morning walks only) at the sumptuous Christie Library cafe in the heart of the old university buildings