Pootler

  GPX File   Tadpole Bridge & Golden Ridge  This is a pleasant, peaceful and undemanding route. Starting from Oxford Station, there is a short climb out of the town and the road into and out of Oxford is busy. Thereafter it is ride along mostly minor roads in flat, arable countryside in the Thames and Windrush valleys. It visits the market towns of Eynsham and Witney before turning south across the flat clay farming landscape of the Thames Valley, to cross the river at Tadpole Bridge. From there is a climb of around 35m onto the Golden Ridge, which separates the modern Thames Valley from the Vale of the White Horse and which you follow back towards Oxford. Zooming In Highlights are: The flat vistas and wide skies of the Thames Valley. Historic and handsome Eynsham and Witney. The villages and views across the Valley from the Golden Ridge Stanton Harcourt and the Devil’s Quoits, now ‘restored’ A diverse collection of heroes and villains. The word ‘div...