Termly walks

Local walks are run on weekends during term time. They are open to anyone and no membership is required, however due to the social distancing regulations we used a sign-up system with a maximum capacity of five participants (plus the leader). Sign-up for walks on each weekend opens on Monday of each week, and will be circulated via our mailing list. Please note the following schedule is tentative; further walks, modifications and further details will be added as the term progresses.

• Freshers’ Walk: Banbury Figure of Eight, Saturday 10th October
• Seven Shires Way Part I, Saturday 10th October
• Freshers’ Walk: Exploring Oxford and beyond, Sunday 11th October
• Bessels Leigh and Cumnor, Saturday 17th October
• Final Stage of the Ridgeway, Saturday 17th October
• Wytham Woods Navigation Training, Sunday 18th October
• Blenheim Circular, Saturday 18th October
• Exploring the Cotswolds, Sunday 25th October
• Navigation Training, Sunday 1st November
• Otmoor Bird Sanctuary, Sunday 1st November
• Exploring the Berkshire Hills, Saturday 7th November
• Chilterns Circular, Sunday 8th November
• Islip and Water Eaton, Saturday 14th November
• Reading to Goring, Sunday 15th November
• Uffington White Horse, Saturday 21st November
• Reading to Henley, Sunday 22nd November
• Great Malvern, Sunday 29th November
• Marathon Walk, Sunday 29th November

Note: The crossed-out walks were cancelled due to the second National lockdown. During this time a WhatsApp group was set up among members to arrange informal walks in pairs, and a page of suggested walking routes around Oxford was set up for members to try.

Local walks are run occasionally over the vacation periods. They are open to anyone and no signup or membership is required, however due to the social distancing regulations we used a sign-up system with a maximum capacity of five participants (plus the leader). During the 2020 long vacation the following walks took place.

• Evening walk down the Thames, Thursday 16th July
• Thames Path from Newbridge to Oxford, Saturday 18th July
• Exploring the Berkshire Hills, Saturday 18th July
• Thames Path from Oxford to Wallingford, Sunday 19th July
• Pangbourne to Goring, Sunday 19th July
• Evening walk around Port Meadow, Thursday 23rd July
• Great Malvern Circular, Saturday 25th July
• Thames Path from Wallingford to Reading, Sunday 26th July
• Thames Path from Reading to Bourne End, Saturday 8th August
• Local Chilterns walk, Sunday 9th August
• Thames Path from Bourne End to Staines, Saturday 15th August
• Thames Path from Staines to Richmond, Sunday 16th August
• Evening Shotover walk, Thursday 20th August

Local walks are run every weekend during term. They are open to anyone; no signup or membership is required, just turn up at the meeting point on the day. The below schedule is not set in stone, and may change as the term progresses. Further details will be added to each walk a week before.

• Blenheim Circular – Saturday 18th January (end of week 0)
• Kingham Circular – Sunday 19th January (start of week 1)
• Oxfordshire Way I : Henley to Lewknor – Saturday 25th January (end of week 1)
• Wallingford Circular – Sunday 26th January (start of week 2)
• Upper Heyford to Oxford along the Oxford canal – Saturday 1st February (end of week 2)
• Oxfordshire Way II: Lewknor to Wheatley – Sunday 2nd February (start of week 3)
• Lewknor to Princes Risborough – Saturday 8th February (end of week 3)
• Cancelled due to adverse weather Banbury Circular – Sunday 9th February (start of week 4)
• Cancelled due to adverse weather Circular walk from Oxford to Boars Hill – Saturday 15th February (end of week 4)
• Pangbourne Circular – Saturday 22nd February (end of week 5)
• Shotover Circular – Saturday 29th February (end of week 6)
• Banbury Circular – Sunday 1st March (start of week 7)
• Circular walk from Oxford to Boars Hill – Saturday 7th March (end of week 7)
• Banbury Circular (Take 3) – Sunday 8th March (start of week 8)

Local walks are run every weekend during term and sometimes during vacation. They are open to anyone; no signup or membership is required, just turn up at the meeting point on the day.

• Goring Circular – Sunday 15th December
• Henley Circular – Saturday 4th January
• Didcot and Wittenham – Saturday 11th January
• Chiltern Circular – Sunday 12th January

Local walks are run every weekend during term. They are open to anyone; no signup or membership is required, just turn up at the meeting point on the day.

• Freshers’ trip to the Malverns – Sunday 13th October (start of week 1)
• Thame Circular (Joint with OxRSS) – Sunday 20th October (start of week 2)
• Charlbury Circular – Sunday 27th October (start of week 3)
• Henley and the Chilterns – Saturday 2nd November (end of week 3)
• Oxford Exploration – Sunday 10th November (start of week 5)
• North Oxfordshire Exploration – Sunday 17th November (start of week 6)
• Christmas Common Walk – Saturday 23rd November (end of week 6)
• Moreton in Marsh Walk – Sunday 1st December (start of week 8)

This term we are additionally running a series of night walks and long walks, which will occur once every week or so. The tentative schedule for the longer walks can be found below; the first few walks will be of accessible length for most, but please make sure to check the distances before turning up! More information can be found on this page.

• Oxford to Wallingford – Saturday 12th October (end of week 0)
• Oxford to Blenheim Palace – Saturday 19th October (end of week 1)
• A walk along the Glyme Valley way – Saturday 26th October (end of week 2)
• Ridgeway Part I – Saturday 9th November (end of week 4)
• Ridgeway Part II – Saturday 16th November (end of week 5)
• Ridgeway Part III – Sunday 24th November (start of week 7)
• Ridgeway Part IV – Saturday 30th November (end of week 7) Postponed to a later date
• Chiltern way first section – Saturday 30th November (end of week 7)

For information on the night walks please see this page.

Local walks over the long vacation ran sporadically, and were circulated via email and Facebook during the week. The following walks took place.

• Cotswolds Water Park – Saturday 29th June
• The Ramblers Jubilee Circular – Saturday 6th June
• Moreton in Marsh Circular – Saturday 13th July
• Abingdon and Dorchester, with a chance of Shotover – Sunday 21st July
• The Shakespearean Way to Blenheim – Sunday 28th July
• The Oxfordshire Way – Sunday 4th August
• Henley to Oxford – Saturday 10th August
• CS Lewis and Shotover – Sunday 11th August
• The Wytham Woods – Sunday 25th August
• The Rollright Stones – Sunday 1st September
• The Clumps of Wittenham (Joint with OxRSS) – Sunday 8th September
• Pangbourne to Goring & Streatly – Sunday 14th September
• Bibury Circular – Saturday 21st September
• Islip and Otmoor – Sunday 6th October