Where Was ‘My Oxford Year’ Filmed? Discover the Oxford Filming Locations From the Sofia Carson Netflix Movie

Netflix is taking American viewers across the pond to find love in My Oxford Year, the new Sofia Carson movie that began streaming on Netflix today.

Directed by Iain Morris and written by Allison Burnett and Melissa Osborne, My Oxford Year is based on the romance novel of the same name by Julia Whelan. Carson stars as Anna, who has deferred her offer for a well-paying finance job to pursue her true dream of studying poetry at the University of Oxford, for one year. On her first day in Oxford, she meets the dreamy Jamie Davenport (Corey Mylchreest), a womanizer who also loves poetry and happens to be teaching the poetry course Anna is enrolled in. Sparks fly, kebabs are had, and karaoke is sung. But, as Anna soon learns, Jamie is hiding something.

If you’re a romantic and an Anglophile, My Oxford Year is the perfect movie for you. But just because a movie takes place in a certain location doesn’t mean it actually filmed there. Read on to learn more about the My Oxford Year filming locations.

Where was My Oxford Year filmed?

My Oxford Year was filmed on location at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England, as well as other locations in England. The production had ample access to Magdalen College, one of the most prestigious and beautiful colleges at Oxford. It’s famous for the Magdalen Tower, a landmark of the university.

In an interview for the My Oxford Year press notes, the film’s director Iain Morris spoke about filming on location at Oxford.

“I loved filming there,” Morris said. “We were very lucky to have a sort of run of Magdalen College, and that was beautiful. There wasn’t a space that I didn’t enjoy. We shot in a cafe there, and I love that it was a real cafe opposite the Radcliffe Camera, where students go.”

In addition to the college, the production also filmed at Radcliffe Square, and outside Hertford College, in Oxford. A 2024 report from This Is Oxfordshire snapped pictures of the cast and crew filming one of the food truck scenes with Carson and Hugh Coles, for a scene when Carson’s character goes on a failed date.

Outside of Oxford, the production also filmed in Windsor, England—a town that sits at about the half-way point between Oxford and London. The first meeting between Anna and Jamie was filmed at the King Neptune fish and chip shop in Windsor. Speaking to the Slough Observer in 2024, the shop owner Arminder Nandra said, “They just popped into the shop. They said it was the perfect location for what they needed. It was very exciting.”

According to that same report, the production also filmed at The Old Court arts centre in Windsor, where the bar there was transformed, presumably to film the pub scene.

For star Sofia Carson, shooting in Oxford and the surrounding area was nothing short of magical.

“I chose not to visit Oxford prior to filming,” Carson said in the My Oxford Year press notes interview, “because I wanted to experience it for the first time on camera as Anna would, so that my discovery of Oxford takes place as the audience discovers it. There were endless beautiful memories. Our very last day of shooting will always be a special memory: I got to shoot the scene where Anna walks through Oxford for the very first time, on my very last day. To take in all the buildings, the beauty, the magic of this place in Anna’s shoes—for the very last time.”