 Circular Walk: Charlbury No.1 (Wychwood) TL= Turn Left FL = Fork Left BL = Bear Left Approximately 9 miles (14km) TR = Turn Right FR = Fork Right BR = Bear Right  TR andhen take bridleway immediately left passing Walcot houses to main road. TL to Charlbury, passing  From the Rose & Crown pub in the centre of Charlbury  Half-way through Chilson the railway station and continuing uphill. At the top of on the corner of Market Street and Church Street, turn down village take the bridleway right the hill, TR back to the Rose & Crown. Church Street in the direction of Witney. BL into Park Street. marked Shorthampton. Continue as the track becomes  After approx. ½km TR, down a road, passing a 12th century E D lane to Cornbury Park, crossing the medieval church on your left, to railway and the river. reach road junction. A

 At North Lodge TL, through  Continue on path out of wooden door and follow footpath next to fence line on your right, woodland and along field edges down to fish ponds and across the through two fields, then bearing left dam. to houses, to pass them on your B right to reach road. TR and then take lane immediately left down to  At far side of dam BR through Chilson. trees. Follow path through tree- lined avenue, crossing tracks to take track straight ahead by stone b TL along the Leafield road until you reach the wall. Beyond end of wall, BL on next woodland (Sore Leap). Take footpath on right field edge track with hedge on your next to wood edge then shortly BR uphill on track. right and follow down and uphill to Take left fork track and follow this track around in gate. BR crossing Manor House C gardens, through gap in yew hedge TL in this clearing and take the to stone stile. TAKE CARE, FAST clearly waymarked wide avenue. ROAD. Continue for about a mile straight on  TR through Finstock on the through the forest to the Leafield road. Witney/Charlbury road. Continue (Short cut directions start at point 9a –  BR at stream  Patch Riding Track on passing the lay-by, until track see below.) crossing and follow descends and climbs again turns off on right between houses. the track uphill to as a wide grassy avenue emerge on an open and curves around to join a a Short cut: At road TR. Continue along road quarrying area. surfaced track beside a wide woodland avenue into for about a mile (1.6 km), then TL at fork, signed Continue straight on Wychwood Forest. to Chadlington. On to Catsham Lane; TR onto along track to a 1 km 1 mile bridleway at point 12. wide grassy area.

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