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Wantage Walks Leaflet 2/5/07 8:43 am Page 1 Challow. Return to Challow. F towpath and leads past about 800 yards of restored canal to This much-used route uses the footpath across the field. cross the main road to a stile and follow waymarked left, follow the roundabout From the canal will provide navigation for paddlers and boaters. cyclists already enjoy restored sections and – eventually joggers, Walkers, accessible to residents and visitors alike. continuous green corridor through the length of Vale, is actively restoring this main line to give a The Trust overleaf:-- From Alternatively Naldertown to Betjeman Park Sports College and into Community and Alfred’s Challow Road, go past King up across the field, carefully cross Way, Hall in Canal At Lock (see cover). Top canal past the reclaimed Grove into a short footpath connecting to the restored Way Mably Wharf I canal towpath at the restored footbridge over the tail of regain the Terrace At the end of Ormond interference. the restoration study suggested a local diversion to avoid right of way) is within their rear gardens but (and official The original route of canal and towpath Terrace. Ormond Station Road for about 600 yards passing in front of Grove Road. Cross and turn left. Follow the footpath of A338 footpath then leads up between house gardens to crossing of Mably Way through housing to Way crossing of Mably right at A the Market Place and and use the pelican crossing into Grove Street back to Way right at Garston Lane to Seesen Turn Foliat Drive. Wa Tirrold Road and in 1/4 mile turn left into Village Charlton and Charlton Village To K shorter 60 min walk the site of a humpbacked bridge (now flattened) in East Grove Common Lock Grove Crabhill Lane H y, return to cross Humber Ditch and up into to the end of E there was an aqueduct over Letcombe Brook was an aqueduct over Letcombe Brook there and derelict H either choose to follow Letcombe Brook, up a controlled A (approx 120 mins) (approx , turn right and climb Crabhill Lane to . Smallmarsh Lock A L A by a footpath behind the Village by a footpath behind the to go left G . Turn left past Turn . Charlton Church Church of St. Peter & Paul. Church returns from and then soon a footpath (approx. 80 mins.) (approx. choose along the road footpath, through the gate into E leading down past J from to . Turn right along Turn . very carefully site of Grove DCBA A E by turning . to cross and the . W No: 2267719. Reg. Charity 299595 Reg. in England & Wales Bassett, Swindon SN4 7AU Wootton High Street, Reg. Office: 117, April 2007 Trust: and Berks Canal Wilts Copyright 939 3567 0118 Tel: Mapping by GEOprojects (UK) Ltd. Cricklade Country Way. Cricklade as part of the proposed Swindon to from Nine miles of canal will also be restored of White Horse and Swindon. the Vale Canal near Melksham via Avon Abingdon to the Kennet & near the ‘Jubilee Junction’to a navigable state from with the Thames the canal is to restore and Berks Canal Trust The aim of the Wilts v e s A KIDLINGTON ebsites: www.wbct.org.uk www.geoprojects.net ebsites: www.wbct.org.uk s S e 3/ Duke's n 7l 4M S UPPER rp a WILTS & BERKS CANAL Cut FRAMILODE a n 1L Cassington h a A A S C Cut > Saul L WITNEY [ C o t Windrush Junction 7M s w o l 200 Sheepwash 13L d Thame & Channel STONEHOUSE L C > A r A T h a m THAME e A e s a OXFORD > & t S STROUD A S n s t J I e a e ro r [ SAPPERTON v c A ud ate 165 e l e u w r s i v r lo N ion 3 CIRENCESTER 3 G CAMBRIDGE avigat n R 9 / 4M Cam 3 A H x C 1 LECHLADE /2 Sapperton A SIDDINGTON a A 4L T 8 M n 230 [ A a Tunnel [ J 3 l > 1L NAILSWORTH A 1 363 J /2 ABINGDON h 4 30 M A Summit 20M INGLESHAM N 11L 160 Level Latton [ D 39L Junction280 [ > a R > Thames3 A A 8 / 4M 3A EYSEY DORCHESTER E CRICKLADEN L 5L m o LONGCOT S r A 6 T t 9M GROVE DIDCOT h A A L J A W SHRIVENHAM A O 12L A WALLINGFORD L i L MALMESBURY l J UFFINGTON A t 4 e A s WANTAGE I C 3 320 J 25M I a J [ n a 5 > 18L W 1/ H HEN CHIPPING WOOTTON l SWINDON 30 4M H s THA SODBURY BASSETT l 9L A A A C J a S 7 [ n GORING 320 a A Summit Level C LYNEHAM s A r k T B e von 27M A CAVERSHAM A & PANGBOURNE A A 130 S 24L s [ K O CHIPPENHAM A > a 200 t 3 [ l READING t e C l J i n a n a A i 3 A 3 C n o 17 / 4M THEALE o Kennet 3 CALNE W MARLBOROUGH 1/ n A v 19 2M n n 31L NEWBURY o Bath Deep e A A i von Claverton A 21L t Lock A t HUNGERFORD > a Pumping d [ [ a n Summit Level 290 A i g x J Station Caen 1 452 KINTBURY 250 v > x Hill /2 a 24 M 4 J [ Kennet 6 Dundas A N BATH 100 [ MELKSHAM Locks 3 x Crofton Beam Engines R i e t Aqueduct x 40L > v e r K e n n J MIDFORD x BRADFORD- J J A A A Kennet & Avon BE HAY A ON-AVON > 29 A x 9 Map extract from GEOprojects al 3 J22 LIMPLEY [ 5S Canal TrustCentre A INLAND WATERWAYS OF BRITAIN route planning map. [ Old130 e DEVIZES k PEWSEY x 120 STOKE x m oo 0510 miles GEOprojects (UK) Ltd. Caisson 15M Semington ing Br 8 Southern Court, South Street, Reading, RG1 4QS (site of) 3 Avoncliff A ton Aqueduct Junction Tel: 0118 939 3567 Fax: 0118 959 7356 TROWBRIDGE7L GEO E-mail: [email protected] projects © Crown copyright. All rights reserved. 0 5 10 15 kilometres Licence number 100020045 W antage Berks Canal The Wilts & & Grove w alk Wantage Walks Leaflet 22/5/07 11:00 am Page 2 straight ahead along the gravel footpath S Explore the former Wantage Arm of DENC HWO O X F O RTH R D A338 to E the junction with the main line of ROAD L A N E the historic Wilts & Berks Canal and BBayay TTreeree A the Canal practically buried below this Pi SSchoolchool H ll D OW itc ARD h FFieldield S AV E E T N the restored waters of the main line section of Mably Way. SC UE V H OOL J I LA O R H D b N E ' ENU S from East Challow past Grove. i E AV VAL R Canal historic main line went both E O S V A I D D R E Drayton & N T D L right and left from E following the U A Abingdon e E L t N E Bell c E e) o R A E n W U i GROVE N AVEN n L m G i V T O E HARLINGT YPS a m Vale of White Horse. To the right/east Y (M N S A E b N l N LA na e Start at A Church of St. Peter & St. Paul opposite the O Ca Spirit Lock T D s B rk past Grove, under the Great Western E A e r D B R o L d N O o n rK E I E a Vale & Downland Museum behind Wantage market place. k I R R F m A M A Y ts Railway past Drayton village and into B il M W rJ Smallmarsh Lock N N the Thames near Abingdon and to the O From the churchyard, follow the footpath downhill past a I T m A rI left/west past East Challow, Uffington T brick garden wall to the right of No. 2 Priory Rd. S GGroverove CCommonommon LLockock and Shrivenham to Swindon. C A N E Turn right after the footbridge to follow Letcombe Brook L Ormond Terrace A N E between tall mill buildings and carefully cross Mill Street b C R D Continued overleaf:-- A A B B to the site of the Wharf at the end of the infilled O H R I H L T Wantage Arm of the Wilts & Berks Canal. R Lime Kiln rH L O W Lock H G C m N R E L D O A V N B E From there are two footpaths. Avoid the new path E R m alongside Letcombe Brook itself, but follow the old path Grove Top Lock O DOWNSVIEW ROAD A rE D (marked by a ‘Cyclists Forbidden’ notice) between Mill M A417 W A (h a BL i n Y s t W Cottage and the new wharfside housing development. to a AY W r g E o e o ic N d A D r A few yards along this old path fork right to find theA h o r L il m l E u Broo te L k N E ) L N I rD C D E C historic route , ,A which zig-zags through the H BET L IZA H H EL DR R D IVE E V O W L I housing estate approximately following the formerO towpath T S F O O W R C ES R JAM ) ST T e K L of the infilled Wantage Arm.