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Silverstone Milton Deddington lies 6m/9.5km south of at the junction of A429 11 A422 Keynes A3400 14 BANBURY A43 A4260 and B4031. Several bus routes pass through the village, Fosseway To M40 A421 including the 59 -Banbury (Mon-Sat); the main bus stop is in S A361 A4260 A43 D L O the Market Place, where there is also limited parking space. W 10 A421 S Chipping Deddington T Norton O A44

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X meeting in the Market Place. They offer a choice of quite different O A40 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 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 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, 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 . The landscape is largely the result of the every day. Fresh sandwiches made to order. Shop and tearoom garden at rear of . Open most lunchtimes and open Mon - Sat 8.00am - 5 pm; Sun 2.30 - 5pm. 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 of High Street 01869 338838 12.00 noon - 2.30pm. Takeaway service P 9 10 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 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 along the B4031 5.5miles / 8.5km Arms. Turn left towards the main road. (signposted Interest 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 and almost immediately straight DaedaÕs 4 On reaching Millenium Woods in Wood on along the bridleway (Cosy Lane) the tarmac lane, 7 A426O 14 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

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o 9 R Daeda’s Wood, turn the first gate on the left and inhabitants and Cherwell 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. the circular walk waymarks closely as the site: ash, five species of willow, oak, alder, grey and black poplar, Popular 3 route takes you past the farm. aspen, downy birch, osier, hawthorn, blackthorn and guelder rose. Chinese This evolving habitat for flora and fauna includes flowers such as B4O31 Takeaway 17 7 Bear right and 2 1 follow the track 8 Turn left in front of the mill white campion, ragged robin, ox-eye daisy, meadow cranesbill, C and through the gate. Cross Hempton 10 Windmill Deddingtdownhill for approx.o poppies, musk mallow, yarrow, purple loosestrife and knapweed and Centre D 1km. CastleNote the meanders the paddock then go over the of the River Swere as you footbridge. Continue bearing many species of butterflies, moths and birds. Otters have been 11 13 reach the bottom. diagonally left across two fields. sighted in the River Swere, which forms the wood’s sinuous northern 12 1 Deddington 2 boundary. Daeda’s Wood is a popular destination for walkers and Shortcut: About halfway up Snakehill Lane, turn nature watchers as well as for community events, such as walks and Cross3 the 9 left and then bear right uphill, heading farm lane and picnics. gradually towards the hedge on your right. follow Snakehill Cross the single sleeper bridge over a ditch Tom well Lane uphill for with care. Bear left diagonally across the corner Farm d B Barford Mill is a Listed Building in ironstone rubble dating a about 1km to o 4 of the next field to a gap in the hedge. R Hempton. from the 18th century. Some original machinery is in place and corn d Continue across the next field uphill towards r o the houses and the Hempton Road. When you has been ground here until recent times. With its pond, the setting f x reach the road, turn left to walk to Deddington. O So amongst pasture land has great charm. South B ro ok 10 Cross the Hempton 11 700 metres down the drive, C Hempton’s two-storey ironstone rubble cottages date mainly Road and turn left. turn sharp left at a signposted For those who would like to venture further afield we recommend After aboutNOT 400 TO metresS gap in the hedge and then walk from the 18th or early 19th century. The Church of St John the the OS Explorer sheet 191. turn right down the drive of diagonally left across two fields. Evangelist, built in 1850-1, has a Norman font. Attached to the Tomwell Farm. Beyond the second hedge, continue church is an old Victorian schoolroom, recently refurbished to create across fields. KEY a community centre for the village. The origins of the name of 12 Cross a farm lane, Snakehill Lane are unknown; but no snakes have been recorded! then go uphill following 13 Enter Deddington via a Route Points of Interest B the line of telegraph poles lane called The Grove. Track Built Up Area across two more fields Cross the main road with D Grove House is the best preserved of several substantial (passing the Windmill care, then walk along Hudson 17th century yeomen’s houses, now converted to private homes. Short Cuts Pond Community Centre and its Street to return to the Market Note the unusual stone mullioned windows of the main building. Wooded Area sports fields on your left). Place. 1 From the Market Place, 2 Turn first right down Clifton Loop follow the Clifton Road Philcote Street, then bear Information about south through the pinch-point. right into St Thomas Street. 6.5miles / 10km River Swere Deddington 4 Turn left at the farm H 3 At the junction with the main Paper Mill road, turn left and almost buildings, then right Deddington (meaning ‘the place of the people of Daeda’) is at the T-junction, passing Cottages immediately left again to go along thought to have been founded by an early Lord of Mercia named Chapmans Lane. Soon you will enjoy the aviary and farmhouse on the first of several fine views. your right. Continue to a T- Daeda. It was a thriving by medieval times, once more R i substantial than Banbury. It gradually lost its importance, especially v junction by a pond. A426O 14 12 e 13 r after it was ‘side-lined’ by canal and railway, but remained a productive

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r u Hazel b 16 6 Turn left, following the n The Market Place, where both walks begin and end, is the a Hedge Duke of 7 B hedge and go through a gate. At the stream (South CumberlandÕs original nucleus of Deddington and the lively scene of many a market Head Continue straight ahead through Brook), turn left through 11 a further gate. Cross the next field the first gate and continue and fair from medieval times onwards. (There is a farmers' market in diagonally right and follow the with the hedge on your right the Market Place on the fourth Saturday of each month from 9am to 17 along two fields. B4O31 hedge downhill to a brook. 12.30pm). Dominating it from the east is the 17th century tower of St 1 Clifton G Deddington Peter and St Paul, the Parish Church which dates from the 13th 10 Castle 8 At the end of the 9 Continue to a gate century. A leaflet describing its main features can be purchased in the second field, turn left and and into a hedged lane church. North of this, the imposing Castle House mainly dates in its in 100 metres right through a to reach Clifton (opposite 1 present form from the 17th century, but retains traces of its 13th 2 gate along the field edge. Duke of Cumberland’s Head) after about 1km. century origins. It was here that Edward II’s infamous favourite Piers 3 9 Gaveston stayed just prior to his execution in June 1312. The Town 10 At the junction with Hall near the centre of the Market Place was rebuilt in 1806. On its E 12 At the waymarker post, the main road, turn left. Arms granted to Deddington in 1994; (see just before the track south wall is the Coat of swings to the right, bear left back cover) the motto in Early English, not , reads preo on anan d a gebundene, o 4 Opposite Manor Farm diagonally across the field meaning ‘three joined together in one’. This refers to the R 8 11 towards the trees. Continue d turn right up Tithe Lane three historic manors of the Parish and perhaps also the three villages r o through the gateway in the f passing a house on your – Deddington, Clifton and Hempton – which make up the parish. A x 7 opposite corner. O South B left after 800 metres, then ro number of the surrounding buildings date from the 17th and 18th ok F continue for 650 metres to a 5 centuries. 6 waymarker post. Shortcut: (no livestock) Turn left at the waymarker post and walk around two 16 NOT TO SCALE sides of the field keeping the hedge on A short walk to the east of Market Place you will find the remainsof Follow the hedged 13 Continue towards 15 Just before the barn turn your right. Turn right onto a track which . The 8.5 acre site consists of massive earthworks lane for 600m. Joining the far right hand left over a stile and go turns immediately left and then right to marking an 11th century motte and . The castle itself had Earls Lane, continue corner and at the uphill keeping to the left. Field Barn. Continue to follow track straight on to meet the 14 Follow junction for Paper Mill already been destroyed by the end of the 14th century. The earthwork Cross another stile at the top. past house/offices as it becomes a Clifton Road. the field Cottages, turn sharp left, and surrounding moat are now largely covered by mature trees, There are often cows in this field concrete roadway and bears left. After edge, keeping keeping within the same and occasionally bullocks. They approx 300 metres, turn right through mainly sycamore and chestnut, but there are a dozen other species Turn right at the junction the hedge to field. Follow the hedge (on 17 may be curious and come second gate(way) and then bear left including ash, birch, oak, wild cherry and rowan. A varied flora (after about 200m, a track your left. your right) to the far corner towards you but there are no across the field to wooden bridge in to the left leads very soon to Continue along and turn right beside the flourishes under the canopy of trees. reports of them being aggressive. hedgeline. Cross bridge and bear right Deddington Castle mound) and the farm lane barn. Go through a metal If you have a dog with you, be towards the houses. Go through gate in follow the road through to the towards a barn. field gate. There is an annual family walk incorporating parts of the Deddington sure to keep it on a short lead. the corner of the field and head back to Market Place. the Market Place along the main road. Circular Walk. For details, see www.deddingtonwalk.co.uk