Walking Close to Banbury Guidebook

by: Clive Brown
One of a range of 'no frills' local walking guide booklets which admirably achieve their objective of getting you out in the countryside amongst beautiful scenery on carefully chosen routes full of interest. The directions are simple and detailed and include clear pencil drawn sketch maps.

This guide describes eleven varied and interesting circular walks close to Banbury within the counties of Oxfordshire, Warwickshire and Northamptonshire. The walks are between 4.5 and 9 miles in distance. Banbury itself is famous for Banbury Cross and a traditional nursery rhyme. The current cross is Victorian, the original being destroyed by Puritans in 1602.

The walk locations are:
Aynho Park - 5.5 miles
Shutford, Yarn Hill and Shenington - 6.5 miles
Bodicote and Sor Brook - 4.5 miles
Wroxton and Padsdon Bottom - 5.75 miles
Edge Hill - 9 miles
Cropredy Bridge - 4.5 miles
Burton Dassett Hills and Fenny Compton 5.75 miles
Ratley and Arlecote Woods - 4.5 miles
Shutford and Jester's Barn - 3.5 miles
Chipping Warden and Danes Moor - 5.5 miles
Horley, Hornton and Clump Lane - 5.5 miles

ISBN 9781907669637 Pages 24 (2011 reprinted 2022) 148mm x 210mm