www.21stcenturythame.org.uk April 2014 April Council own own T Thame Thame Cuttlebrook Nature Reserve & St Mary's 3 Pass a picnic area on your right, cross over a tarmac path and 6 Retrace your steps back to the church and enter the churchyard To the Bucks border own Council own Council and Thame T Thame and Council carry straight on. To the right are medieval fish ponds and an old up the steps in front of you. Turn right and follow the path around the This leaflet has been produced by 21st Century Thame with support of South Oxfordshire District District Oxfordshire South of support with Thame Century 21st by produced been has leaflet This Short Walks from Thame Church Distance 2.9km (1.8 miles) Distance 5.7km (3.6 miles) town spring. 1 Start at the Museum. Cross the road and turn right. Just before church to the south porch. This is the parish church of St Mary the 1 Start at the Cattle Market car park and turn right into which continues to Oxford. to continues which 4 short circular walks in and around You soon leave the nature reserve and reach the main Oxford Virgin, which dates back to the 13th Century. Continue along the path Thame is part of National Cycle Network Route 57 Route Network Cycle National of part is Thame the Six Bells pub turn left into Brook Lane and follow this past St. 4 Moorend Lane. Pass the Bishop's Palace on the left and a green rail between Princes Risborough and and Risborough Princes between rail The Phoenix T Phoenix The Thame of between 2 and 4 miles Joseph's RC Church. At the end of Brook Lane go half left onto a Road. Turn right over the bridge, noting the site of the old ford on the in the same direction and where the paths cross, turn right. on the right to the end of the road. By bicycle By right. Cross the road and continue up the slight slope passing the old woodland path into the Cuttlebrook Nature Reserve. 7 At the far side of the churchyard go through a gate into the 2 Bear slightly right onto a footpath leading between houses key Rycotewood College on your left, now a housing development. cricket field and head for the far right hand corner of the field. ample parking available in the town. the in available parking ample Bridleways (cycleways) 2 Follow the path through the woods running gently downhill to where it exits into Cromwell Avenue beside numbers 42 and south at junction 6. Follow signs to Thame. There is is There Thame. to signs Follow 6. junction at south and straight over a crossing path, until you reach the brook. Pass a 5 Where the main road turns right, carry straight on into Priest Another gate leads onto the Aylesbury Road near a roundabout. Turn 44. Turn left and at the end of Cromwell Avenue cross the main From the north leave M40 at junction 8a, or from the the from or 8a, junction at M40 leave north the From Footpaths Thame End passing the Prebendal on your left, now privately owned, and the right up Bell Lane, which leads you back to the Museum. By car By pond on your left and continue alongside the brook until you come road to the lane on the other side. This is the continuation of M40 Public houses to a bridge. Cross the bridge and turn right, then after a short church on your right. Follow the road down to the old Long Crendon Moorend Lane – an ancient trackway. www.nationalrail.co.uk Road bridges over the River Thame and the county boundary. P Thame centre parking distance right again, retracing your steps on the opposite bank. Follow this wide track past the sewage works and Ham rain information: call 0845 7484950 or visit visit or 7484950 0845 call information: rain T 3 Chiltern Line between Marylebone and Birmingham Snow Hill. Snow Birmingham and Marylebone between Line Chiltern wc Toilets i Information Wood. Go past a farm and bear slightly right. This area can be away from Haddenham and Thame Parkway which is on the the on is which Parkway Thame and Haddenham from away muddy. Ignore the stile on the left which leads to Haddenham. Thame is a short bus (280) or taxi ride ride taxi or (280) bus short a is Thame This map is reproduced from Ordnance Survey material with the B4011 By train By permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her 4 The track becomes narrower and enters a section through Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown copyright. a tunnel of trees which can be muddy. Use the small path www.traveline.org.uk raveline 0871 200 2233 or visit visit or 2233 200 0871 raveline T A 4 1 8 A418 4 5 through trees on the right hand side as an alternative. Chinnor and ch Stokenchur via ycombe from High W High from 21st Century Thame cannot accept responsibility for any errors that Meadow View Park at other times. The Arriva Line 40 is a Mon - Sat daytime service service daytime Sat - Mon a is 40 Line Arriva The times. other at may have occurred in producing this map. April 2014 5 Go through a gate and follow the path around the edge of station. The 280 runs frequently during Mon - Sat daytimes, less so so less daytimes, Sat - Mon during frequently runs 280 The station. A418 a field, over a wooden bridge. Continue along the edge of the . It passes by Haddenham and Thame Parkway Parkway Thame and Haddenham by passes It . ylesbury and A and Ham Wood Thame is on the 280 service between Oxford Oxford between service 280 the on is Thame next field beside a stream until you reach the corner of the field D R O A By bus By 3 with a large stile in front of you. Do not cross the stile but turn right, back towards Thame. R O U N D 4 M40 6 Y L E S B U R Y H E A Follow this path between fields of crops. It eventually A 6 D 6 D R I V E widens into a track. Admire the views to the left of the Chiltern C U 5 Hills, Whiteleaf Cross and the BT tower at Stokenchurch. A40 T 6 T ycombe W T Y T H R O P L The track continues, passing the site of the Thame Show, 7 High High E E W A B 2 THAME Y 7 R some allotments and Chinnor Rugby Club. At the main road, A4010 A329 O A 4 1 2 9 O Risborough 5 cross over and take the footpath opposite alongside Kingsey 7 K 8 Princes Oxford Road. C R O M W E L L A 8a 10 N O R T H A40 A418 H I G H S T R E E T N E S T R L A Take the second footpath on the right alongside a wall to a A4129 THAME E E T 8 1 V E N U E 9 B E L L 1 recreation field. Cross the field diagonally to the left corner, take St. Mary’s Church, Thame 4 Cattle P Market A418 P the road in front of you and after a few yards turn right slightly D 7 N E A4129 M40 wc R O A B4011 ylesbury A 1 downhill. B R O O K L A C O Ri N M A BUTTERMARKET 9 At the end of Onslow Drive turn left into Cromwell S O U T H E R N A418 D P R K E T Avenue and follow this road, eventually coming to a green area A41 9 7 2 O X F O R D R O A i U P 8 on your left. This is The Moats - an ancient fishponds site. At the A413 wc P E R HP I G H S T 3 D far side of The Moats turn left into Chalgrove Road, then take Bicester N E 1 W E L L I N G T O N L A K I N G S E Y R O A the second right into Parliament Road. Nature S T R E E T S O U T H E R N R O O K S S T R E E T War How to get here get to How Reserve 2 5 K I N G ‘ S Follow this road round and at the end turn right onto a N E O N Memorial E A S T S T R E E T 10 N E L S R O A R O A footpath which leads you back to the Cattle Market. D D D E L M S R O A P A R O A M O R E T O N L A R K S T R E E T B4012 D D D A329 R O A Elms Park Q U E E N ‘ S C R O F T R O A W I N D M I L L 2 C H I N N O R Towersey R O A Thame D 6 O OXFORDSHIRE O D R K R O A 8 A 3 4 Walking around Thame M E P 6 C H I N N O R R O A T H A 8 W E N M A N R O A D D B4012 5 B4012 3 9 Moreton B4445 0 100 200 300 400 500m The War Memorial, Moreton 0 100 200 300 400 500yards After about 50 yards go through a small gate and across the next field following the hedge on the To Towersey Distance 6.4km (4.0 miles) 4 4 right.