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Deddington Circular Walk Stratford- A5 Upon-Avon 15A 12 15 A361 A3400 A43 Total: 12Miles / 18.5Km A429 M40Warwick LEAMINGTON SPA A361 15 M1 14 NORTHAMPTON A46 13 A423 16 Deddington Circular Walk Stratford- A5 upon-Avon 15A 12 15 A361 A3400 A43 Total: 12miles / 18.5km A429 M40 M 1 A5 Silverstone Milton Deddington lies 6m/9.5km south of Banbury at the junction of A429 11 A422 Keynes A3400 14 BANBURY A43 A4260 and B4031. Several bus routes pass through the village, Fosseway Brackley Buckingham To M40 A421 including the 59 Oxford-Banbury (Mon-Sat); the main bus stop is in S A361 A4260 A43 D Evesham L O the Market Place, where there is also limited parking space. W 10 A421 S Chipping Deddington T Norton BICESTER O A44 C E R I A361 H 9 A41 A41 S Deddington Circular Walks form a figure of eight, the two loops D M40 R Woodstock O To Cheltenham A34 F X meeting in the Market Place. They offer a choice of quite different O A40 Kidlington Witney A40 A40 Location Map routes, embracing the villages of Hempton to the west OXFORD A34 8 8 (5.5m/8.5km) and Clifton to the east (6.5m/10km). Each offers optional short cuts. The routes are signed and described in an Acknowledgements anti-clockwise direction, though they can be walked either way. John Lee – for initiating the project · Landowners - for their co-operation Sylvie and George Spenceley - for research and preparation of walks Both are essentially Deddington Parish Council - for financial assistance with the project André and Cindy Tansley - who inspect the walk twice a year and have provided rural, featuring typical photographs rolling north Oxfordshire countryside with several Additional Information fine extensive views. The text of this leaflet can be made available in other languages, large print, From the ridge on which braille, audio or electronic format on request. Please contact 01295 227001. Deddington is sited they bring you down into the fields and pastures of the Cherwell valley or those of its tributary streams forming the parish boundaries, with South Brook to the south and the Swere to the north. Ground conditions can be wet and muddy, especially in winter, so stout footwear is advisable. All of Cherwell District Council’s circular walks and rides are published on the Council website and can be downloaded free. Leaflets can be purchased from Banbury Tourist Information Centre (01295 259855). For further information about Leaflets produced by the Deddington Map Group and a circular walks and rides, guided walks and grants available for countryside access Deddington guide describes the village in more detail. You can also projects, please contact:- learn more about Deddington on the website: Environment & Community Directorate Cherwell District Council, Bodicote House, Bodicote, Banbury, www.deddington.org.uk Oxon, OX15 4AA Telephone 01295 221803 E-mail: [email protected] Deddington March 2009 Web: www.cherwell.gov.uk Coat of Arms ] Printed on Recycled paper Eagles Fresh Foods Deddington Places to 6 01869 338500 · www.feaglesfreshfoods.co.uk Clifton Loop Points of Ready-to-eat quiches, pasties, pastries and award-winning pies. Eat & Drink Open Mon 8am - 4pm; Tues - Fri 8am - 6pm; Sat 8am - 5pm; Sun 10am - 4pm. Interest Foodies Tearooms Crown and Tuns 01869 337470 E As you descend Chapmans Lane fine farmland views 1 01869 337371 · www.puddingface.com 7 Tearoom serving light lunches and afternoon teas. Shop open up before you of the valley fed by South Brook on its way to Refurbished 16th century coaching inn with local with food from around the world. Fresh bread and patisserie real ales and delicious homemade pies. Walled join the River Cherwell. The landscape is largely the result of the every day. Fresh sandwiches made to order. Shop and tearoom garden at rear of pub. Open most lunchtimes and open Mon - Sat 8.00am - 5 pm; Sun 2.30 - 5pm. Enclosures Act of 1808; you may like to imagine the very different evenings – check for exact times and reservations. impact that would have been made by the open-field system that Otters Restaurant Bengal Spice Restaurant preceded it for at least 1000 years. Leadenporch Farm lies at the 8 01869 338813 2 01869 337733/337799 centre of the scene. Highland cattle, one of its specialities, are A family-run business www.bengalspice-restaurant.com offering modern often to be seen in the surrounding pastures. Authentic Indian/Bangladeshi cuisine - meat, European food with a rustic theme. Lunch and dinner menus. poultry, seafood and vegetarian. Sunday buffet Castle 5 House Open Tues - Sat 12pm - 2 pm; Fri and Sat 7pm - 9.30pm; lunch by booking only. Takeaway service also Sun 12pm - 2.30pm; Mon closed. available. Open Mon - Sat 12 noon - F Bowman’s Bridge, a few yards from your route, is an old 2.30pm and 5.30pm - 11.00pm; Sun and Hempton Road pack horse bridge over South Brook. As you turn north, you look Horse Fair Co-op Village Store Bank Holidays 12 noon - 2.30pm and Bull Ring Church of 01869 336281 out across the fields to the River Cherwell. In winter these are 5.30pm - 10.00pm. St Peter & St Paul 9 quite often flooded and attract substantial flocks of wildfowl 4 6 General store, post office and newsagents licensed to sell groceries, cigarettes and alcohol May Fu Two 11 (mallard, wigeon, pochard, teal) and waders (lapwing, golden (off premises). Cash back service available. 01869 338047 7 and grey plover). 3 Open Mon - Sat, 7am - 9pm; Sun 8am - 9pm. Restaurant serving traditional The Tchure Town 8 Chinese cuisine from various regions. Hall Market The Unicorn Sunday buffet lunch by booking only, Place G Close to the River Cherwell, Clifton is a pretty hamlet of High Street 01869 338838 12.00 noon - 2.30pm. Takeaway service P 10 9 18th century coaching inn with mainly two-storied ironstone rubble cottages, a number from the also available. Open every lunchtime and 10 bar, restaurant and large garden. Bar evening - check for exact times and 18th and early 19th century. The Chapel of St James, built in 1853, meals and restaurant offering varying reservations. has been converted into business premises and Manor Farm has a Hudson Street menu in traditional style that Bothy date stone of 1685. The Duke of Cumberland’s Head dates from The emphasises local produce. Check for Peppers Restaurant Grove The 3 exact opening times and reservations. the 17th century and has a fine thatched roof. One of its earlier 4 01869 338274 www.oxfordshire-hotels.co.uk licensees in the mid-19th century ran a beaver hat factory in a 2 The Red Lion Mediterranean style restaurant and bar in neighbouring building. 01869 338777 the 15th century Holcombe Hotel. 1 Free house pub with local real ales. Courtyard at the back. Open every Specialises in fresh pasta and pizza dishes 11 lunchtime and evening - check for exact times. together with tapas, steaks and H Paper Mill Cottages, a few yards north of your route, are vegetarian options. Open every lunchtime reminders of the earlier existence here of a paper mill belonging to and evening - check for exact times and the Emberlin family in the late 18th to mid-19th century. The mill reservations. Duke of Cumberland’s Head - Clifton 01869 338534 · www.thecliftonduke.com was converted to a cornmill by Z.W. Stilgoe of Adderbury Grounds The Deddington Arms Hotel 17th century thatched inn with large garden. Bar meals and Farm. 5 01869 338364 restaurant serving varied menu. Good range of real ales and www.oxfordshire-hotels.co.uk wines and log fire in the winter. Check for exact opening times 16th century inn with good range of real ales and and reservations. I At the top of the steep pasture look back for fine views wines and freshly prepared bar meals. Also AA Rosette restaurant offering modern British cuisine. Popular Chinese Takeaway - Hempton Road including the spires of Adderbury and King’s Sutton churches. Check for exact opening times and reservations. 01869 338881 Specialises in Oriental Cantonese take-away meals and also offers fish and chips. Tables outside for use in good weather. Open Tuesday to Thursday 4pm - 10.30pm; Friday & Saturday 12 noon - 11pm; Sunday 4pm - 10.30 pm. Closed on Mondays, Open Bank Holidays. 1 From the Market 2 Cross at Hempton Loop Place walk northwards the traffic Hempton Loop Points of towards the Deddington lights and walk 5.5miles / 8.5km Arms. Turn left towards the along the B4031 Interest main road. (signposted Hempton) for 300 Coombe 6 metres. Hill Farm A Daeda’s Wood is 5 3 Turn right into The Daedings the first of 200 new DaedaÕs and almost immediately straight 4 On reaching Millenium Woods in Wood Bloxham on along the bridleway (Cosy Lane) the tarmac lane, 7 A426O 14 England and Wales Bridge for 1km. There are fine views as you turn right then left B River A descend into the Swere valley. into Daeda’s Wood. created by the Woodland Swere 4 Trust, with substantial 8 d 15 contributions from local a 5 At the far end of 6 At the top of the hill, ignore o R Daeda’s Wood, turn the first gate on the left and inhabitants and Cherwell 9 y left along Milton Road, r continue along the road to the metal District Council. In 1996, 3500 trees were planted in a former arable u Snakehill b 16soon crossing the River pedestrian gate on your left. Cross the n field. The trees and shrubs selected are all suitable for this riverine Lane a Swere. Continue uphill for field towards Coombe Hill Farm. Follow B approx. 700 metres.
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