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- Getting started walking
- Tips for walking with diabetes
- How often should I exercise?
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- Is walking a good workout?
- Warm up for walking
- Walking for health
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- Walking can help our overweight youngsters
- Walking helps in fight against obesity
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- Diet Coke nutrition info
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- 10 reasons to take up walking
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- Finding motivation
- How a good walk can help with stress
- A cliff with a view: New Quay walk
- St Nicholas, Vale of Glamorgan
- Bawsey Church near King's Lynn, Norfolk
- Walking Facts and Figures
- Rambling: how to get started
- Footpath Erosion
- Advice and Information for Leaders of Rambles
- An Introduction to the Hadrian's Wall Path
- An Introduction to the Pennine Way
- An Introduction to the Coast to Coast Walk
- An Introduction to the Cotswold Way
- Public Rights of Way FAQ
- A Guide to Walking in Britain
- More Than a Walk
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Oxfordshire Way
A lowland path to the north of Oxford linking the Cotswolds with the Thames via the Chilterns.
Walking Route Details:
County: Oxfordshire
Distance: 65 miles
Difficulty of walk: Easy
Estimated time to complete walk: 48
Terrain details: Awalk of this length is bound to have varied surfaces but on the whole the contours are easy going.
Type of route: Linear
Starts: Bourton on the Water
Ends: Henley on Thames
Amenities available on route: See guidebook for details
How to get there: Bourton has buses to Kemble (trains for London, Reading, Swindon, Gloucester, Cheltenham and Birmingham) or Moreton-in-Marsh, on the Thames Trains line between Oxford/Reading/London and Worcester. This line is roughly parallel to the Way between Shipton and Combe, with intermediate stations near the route at Charlbury and Finstock. Other Thames Trains services near the route serve Tackley (Oxford, Banbury and Birmingham), Islip (Oxford and Bicester Town) and Henley (Reading and Twyford with connections to London, Birmingham and southwest England).
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