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.
Canal House
(circ 1828) was the headquarters of the Oxford Canal Company and
overlooked the coal wharf. They moved to this building in 1878 from
the magnificent Linton House in New Inn Hall Street as the company
where being affected by the building of railways in the 1850's.
This building is now the lodgings of the Master of St. Peter's
College.
Not strictly
on the Oxford Canal Walk but very close and certainly
linked.
Please ensure that you replace the cache correctly,
hopefully as you found 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.