Photo: Ramblers in the countryside
The area covered by the Oxford Group includes the area within and around Oxford also the many fine historic local towns and villages surrounding the city including Blenheim Palace, Port Meadow and Shotover Country Park. The classical parks of the city contrast with the diverse landscape of nearby villages, fields, woods and moorland.
Within the City, there are many open spaces and parks to be walked, from ancient farmland and the historic grazing areas of Port Meadow to the more formal University Parks, Christchurch Meadows, and Magdalen College Deer Park, all within the Oxford Ring Road.
An aerial view of Oxford shows an unexpected number of green open spaces. Indeed, the group’s Footpath Secretary's work varies from shared footpath and cycle ways in the city centre on one day, to rights of way across the historic Port Meadow, or the Cherwell Paths on the next, perhaps taking in the Oxford canal and the Thames Path.
PRE-AGM WALK.
Starting point: City Council Car Park behind Waitrose in Headington, Old High Street, Headington Oxford OX3 9AH
What3words: slams.desks.stole
Grid Ref: SP 5458 0722
Length: 4.5 miles
Description: Join us for this delightful largely off-road route around the green spaces and waterways of Headington. It will include historic Cuckoo Lane, Headington Hill Hall, the Boundary Brook wildlife corridor, a brief look at Warneford Meadow, then Lye Valley and Rock Edge both of which are SSSIs. It could be muddy in places.
Leader RW: 07964179716
OXFORD RAMBLERS GROUP AGM
SATURDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 1PM - Black Boy Public House, Old High Street
Buffett Lunch at the Black Boy Public House, Old High Street from 12 noon
Please contact Oxford.ramblers@gmail.com before 30 October if you intend to attend for catering purposes
Documents for the AGM can be downloaded below
Read about our successful urban Rights of Way campaign.
* Article courtesy of the AHRC-funded "In All Our Footsteps" project at Oxford Brookes University and Newcastle University
Read more about the Oxford Ramblers.
Walking is a simple pleasure that should be open to everyone, so we campaign to remove barriers to walking and we protect the places we love to wander.
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