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.
Dukes Cut was built by the
Duke of Marlborough in 1789 to link the new canal with the Thames.
It was not until 1796 that the Oxford Canal Company built their own
link to the river, at Isis Lock. This short cut remains a popular
route to the Thames as it bypasses the last three urban miles of
the canal.
This cache will require a
degree of agility to complete the final approach, please be
careful. This is a very busy towpath so please be careful when
retrieving and hiding this cache.
This cache has had
problems with damp, but if it is replaced with the arrow pointing
up it should remain dry.
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.