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The Oxfordshire Way is a long-distance walk in Oxfordshire, England, with 6 miles in Gloucestershire and very short sections in Buckinghamshire. The path links with the Heart of England Way and the Thames Path. The path runs for 68 miles (109 km) from Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, [1] to Henley-on-Thames. [2]
Oxford Green Belt Way: 52 84: Oxfordshire: N/A: N/A: Circular route through the Oxford Green Belt. Oxfordshire Way: 62 100: Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire: Bourton-on-the-Water: Henley-on-Thames: Passes from the Cotswolds to the Chiltern Hills. Pilgrims' Way: 120 193: South Eastern England: Winchester: Shrine of Thomas Becket, Canterbury
Oxfordshire 51°46′16″N 1°13′16″W / 51.771°N 1.221°W / 51.771; Northway is a suburb in northeast Oxford , England , just inside the Oxford ring road .
The present Rycote House, glimpsed from the Oxfordshire Way.. Carved masonry has been found from a substantial house that stood here in the 14th century. [2] Rycote House was a great Tudor country house that was built here early in the 16th century, probably for Sir John Heron, Treasurer of the Chamber to first Henry VII and then Henry VIII, [6] who bought the manor of Rycote on his retirement ...
T. E. Lawrence (known as Lawrence of Arabia) grew up in Polstead Road, North Oxford. Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984), Poet Laureate, was an enthusiast about North Oxford and wrote poems mentioning the area, such as May-Day Song for North Oxford: Belbroughton Road is bonny, and pinkly bursts the spray Of prunus and forsythia across the public way,
A range of ways to explore this quintissentially English region on foot
It crosses seven others: the Beacon Way, Staffordshire Way, Two Saints Way, Arden Way, Cotswold Way, Oxfordshire Way, and Thames Path. It is maintained by the Heart of England Way Association. On 3 April 2021, Richard Antrobus set a new record, north to south, nonstop of 19 hours 47 minutes.
Oxfordshire (/ ˈ ɒ k s f ər d ʃ ər,-ʃ ɪər / OKS-fərd-shər, -sheer; abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England.The county is bordered by Northamptonshire and Warwickshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the east, Berkshire to the south, and Wiltshire and Gloucestershire to the west.