Oxfordshire Way

Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire

The Way, a traverse of Oxfordshire from Bouton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds to Henley-on-Thames in the Chilterns. Links the Heart of England Way with the Thames Path National Trail across the rolling limestone countryside of the Cotswold Hills, passing through Shipton-under-Wychwood, Charlbury and other villages before crossing Otmoor to Studley, north of Oxford. Here it turns to Tetsworth and Pyrton, and crosses the open farmland and woods of the chalk hills of the Chilterns to reach the Thames.

From Bourton-on-the-Water to the Oxford Canal just west of Kirtlington it forms part of the E2 European Long Distance path which runs from Scotland to the south coast of France.

The Way connects to Blenheim Park (a World Heritage Site) - see Wychwood Way.

The waymarked Wardens' Way and Windrush Way (both 14 miles and on OS mapping) provide low and high level routes respectively from Bourton-on-the-Water to the Cotswold Way at Winchcombe.

The waymarked Thame Valley Walk (15 miles and on OS mapping) which starts near Aylesbury ends at Albury on the Oxfordshire Way forming connections with the North Bucks Way and the Aylesbury Ring.

See also E-Routes (E2).

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Details:

Path Type:	Paths Marked on OS mapping
Waymark:	Letters OW on standard waymarks
Attributes:	Easy Downland/Wolds World Heritage Site
Start:	SP167207 - Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire
Finish:	SU763826 - Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire

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Publications, Badges and Certificates:

Guidebook	Oxfordshire Way  (Walking Pages  - 2019 )
Guidebook	Walkers' Britain  (Awesome Books  - 2011 )
External download	Oxfordshire Way  (Walking Englishman  - 2011 )

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