What C.S. Lewis related sites are open to the public?
In the United Kingdom: Magdalen College, Oxford is often open to public visits in the vacations. Holy Trinity Churchyard Headington Quarry, Oxford (the site of Jack’s grave) is open. The Kilns, Lewis’s home for many years, is currently under restoration and may eventually be opened to the public. The Eagle and Child (the Bird and Baby) where many of the Inklings meetings were held is open during normal pub opening hours. In the United States: Wheaton College in the far western suburbs of Chicago, houses an extensive collection relating not only to C.S. Lewis, but also to G.K. Chesterton and Dorothy Sayers. Among its treasures is the original Wardrobe that C.S. Lewis supposedly had in mind when he wrote the Narnia books. Rick Freeman writes: ‘It is very ornate and mysterious looking, as a matter of fact I think the public T.V. portrayal of Narnia actually used this very one or a replica. The temptation to wait until no one is looking and just walk into it and see what would happen was a
