Oxfordshire Way: Wootton Door to Weston-on-the-Green
From the A44 the Oxfordshire Way continues along Akeman Street, initially along a lane. It crosses the River Glyme, whose dammed waters make the majestic lakes of Blenheim, before flowing to the Thames. Over the T-junction, Akeman Street follows a raised cart track, which rises up to give superb views. Glancing back, look across the Glyme valley to Blenheim. Ahead, the panorama encompasses all the ground between this last spur of Cotswold, the Oxford Heights, where the television transmission mast at Beckley acts as a good location marker, and Brill in Buckinghamshire. At a junction of paths in a spinney, take the middle path.
Akeman Street reaches the A4260 next to Sturdy’s Castle, now an inn offering accommodation, and beyond this descends along field edges into the Cherwell valley. Crossing a lane to a further field (potentially with livestock) Eeventually it crosses a plank bridge over a stream. Here you bid farewell to Akeman Street and turn right to a lane where the old stone house, Field Cottage, guards the humps and hollows of the now-vanished village of Old Whitehill.
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