The Oxford
Canal Walk follows the picturesque Oxford Canal as it meanders
slowly through 77 miles of classic scenery, much of which has
barely changed in centuries. Passing through the quiet rural
landscape of the south Midlands. It passes beside 43 locks,
numerous wooden lift bridges, cast iron bridges and through one
tunnel. There are few hills to speak of - the canal summit is only
400 feet above the start at Oxford. At one time it was the
main transport route from the midlands to the south of England and
it is now one of the most beautiful and popular cruising
canals.
The pretty
village of Wolvercote marks the north western boundary of the City
of Oxford. It was listed in the Domesday Book as Ulfgarcote
(Cottage of Wulfgar), the name had mutated to Wolvercote by
1135.
The route to the final location for this cache may
take a little bit of working out, but please be reassured that no
gymnastic or acrobatic skills are required. If you find that they
are then you have taken the wrong route
. Some of the route may get
slippery after rain, so please be careful as we wouldn't want
anyone to slip and get hurt/wet.
As my employer has decided that it would be a good idea to
move the whole organisation to Bristol, the Phillimore's (Mad H@ter
and Muddy Legs) will be moving on to pastures new and some fresh
caches. Unfortunately this will mean that it will become difficult
for us to maintain our Oxfordshire caches, so we will therefore be
gradually archiving the majority of them. We shall start our
program of collecting the caches and archiving them in the new
year, but as we have one or two caches out there this will not be a
five minute program! If you would particularly like to find this
cache before it is archived please get in touch and we will try and
hold off archiving it.