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.
During the later stages of
construction of the canal the company suffered severe financial
problems. Due to this the locks towards the Oxford end where deep
and narrow with a single gate.
This can be a very busy area so watch out for Muggles whilst
searching for your prize.
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.