This tiny 500-year-old shop was operating as a grocery – and managed by a sheep – when Lewis Carroll’s Alice popped in. Opposite Carroll’s Christ Church home, it now sells Alice in Wonderland souvenirs from jigsaws to jewellery.
Alice’s Shop
Oxford
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