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.
Not strictly
on the canal but it makes an ideal spot to leave your motorised
transport and go off and explore the tranquil banks of the Oxford
Canal.
Since
placing this cache, and on a maintenance visit we were rather
shocked to see about a dozen cars with there windows smashed
. I'm fairly certain that this
happened during an overnight cider and heroin party
(plenty of evidence about, and we
were early), so I would not recommend using the car park over
night, but it should be OK during the day as it gets very
busy, especially if you park near the cycle track that goes
through it.
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.