Wychwood Walk No.10: Wychwood Way / Step Into the Cots- Wolds Circular Walk—Chadlington

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Wychwood Walk No.10: Wychwood Way / Step into the Cots- wolds Circular Walk—Chadlington Approximately 3 miles / 4.75 km TL - Turn left BL - Bear left Parking: Mill End or along Chipping Norton Road TR - Turn right BR - Bear right (Please park with consideration to residents)

Part of a series of circular walks that link in with The Wychwood Way

4 Continue straight ahead along the bridleway. Start Point After approx. 200m turn right. Bear left across 1 From the end of Mill Lane walk down Chipping the field to the far corner then along the edge Norton Road towards the centre of Chadlington. Just of the next field to the sewage works. after Rawlinson Close turn left and follow the track Continue straight ahead alongside then path straight ahead between the gardens. At the the sewage works to a bridge across corner of the last garden go straight across the field. the Chadlington Brook. Turn right Turn right and walk in front of the pavilion to a gate along the edge of the field and over a leading into Chapel Road. 1 6

7 6 5 2 Turn right then almost immediately left 2 Turn left out of the Memorial Hall car 5 inot Cross’s Lane. After 50m turn right park. Follow Chapel Road for 100m before 5 and follow the Chadlington Brook. wood, turning right onto the footpath by ‘The 8 3 through a wooden kissing gate and onto a Grove’. Follow the path straight ahead lane. TR and follow the lane for approx then bear left around the edge of the field. 3 At a large field gate bear slightly right 4 across the corner of the next field. . 9 10 11 2 1 3 After crossing a stream continue right to the corner of the next field. Turn right down After approx. 400m cross the brook, turn a farm track to the Oxfordshire Way. Turn 6 right through a gap in the hedge and follow left along the edge of the field to emerge the bridleway for the next 500m alongside into Mill End by the Tite Inn. Turn right fields and Little Wood to Catsham Lane. and walk up Mill End to the junction with the Chipping Norton Road.

In partnership with The Cotswold AONB Volunteer Wardens, The Wychwood Project works to help local communities The Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment (TOE), and The Waste Recycling Group (WRG). to conserve and restore the landscapes and habitats This map is reproduced from Ordnance Survey material with the permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown copyright. Unauthorised reproduction infringes Crown copyright and may lead to prosecution or civil proceedings. Licence: 100023343 (2008) in the ancient royal hunting Forest of Wychwood. Wychwood Walk No. 6: North Leigh - East End Approximately 4 miles / 6.25 km Parking: Park Road and Perrott Close TL - Turn left BL - Bear left (Please park with consideration to residents) TR - Turn right BR - Bear right Part of a series of circular walks that link in with The Wychwood Way

Points of Interest

Between points 2-7 The path follows the route of The Wychwood Way A 37 mile way-marked trail, around the historic royal hunting Forest of Wychwood.

Point 3 St Mary's Church Largely built in the mid 11th century, contains a Saxon tower from an earlier church. Its 15th century chapel is dedicated to the Wilcote family, one member of which was appointed Keeper of Cornbury Deer Park by Henry IVth.

Between points 7-8 North Leigh Common Was renamed from the former Eynsham Heath, which spread from East End to South Leigh, before its enclosure and conversion to farmland in the 18th century.

Locally North Leigh Roman Villa 2 miles north of North Leigh; 10 miles west of Oxford, off the A4095. The Wychwood Way