Walking: Wytham Woods and the Thames Path

[white_hart]

I thought that a walk would probably be the ideal thing to do today to reboot my brain back into normal mode after Eastercon. We went to Wytham Woods to see if the bluebells were out yet, and did a walk I've been wanting to do for a while, through the woods to Swinford Toll Bridge and then along the Thames Path to Godstow before heading back across the fields to go back into the woods at the south-eastern gate and heading back to the car park.



I'd thought that it would be a really nice circuit, and I wasn't disappointed. The bluebells were indeed out, and the woods looked lovely, and that turns out to be a lovely peaceful stretch of the Thames Path (as long as you can ignore the increasing noise from the A34, obviously). It was pretty much dead on seven miles, with a reasonable amount of elevation (walking has made me realise that while Oxford itself is on the floor of the river valley, it's actually ringed with quite hilly hills, and Wytham Hill is 165m which, while obviously nothing by the standards of the Lake District or the Highlands, isn't actually too shabby), on a lovely sunny day.

Comments

[nineveh_uk]

That sounds a really nice walk, I'll have to look at it on the map as an option. It's always good to find something with elevation.

[white_hart]

It's pretty easy to navigate, especially if you have the OS map to refer to - the only bit that's a bit tricky is remembering that you have to make roughly a 45-degree turn to your left just before the A34 bridge at Godstow, and the path across the field is a bit faint (though since we went that way last there's a new fence which the path runs alongside).

[sfred]

Hurray for bluebells! There are some in my garden, now, and a lot of lilies of the valley.

[white_hart]

Bluebells are great! (I'm told that some are English and some are Spanish, and the English ones are better, but I'm not sure I can tell the difference.)

[maia]

Beautiful!!!