A walk along the Coventry Canal

The Coventry Canal links the northern end of the Oxford Canal to the city centre, and is a green corridor through the suburbs into the city.

Hawkesbury Engine House 

where from the early 1800s steam engines pumped water into the canal from deep wells.

Art on a Coventry Canal bridge near Hawkesbury Junction.

Electric Wharf, the site of the first power station in Coventry.

'The Coil' by Frank Triggs

Art on the Coventry Canal

'Daimler Heritage Marker' by Robert Crutchely

Art on the Coventry Canal

The sculpture marks the site of the Daimler Factory that produced the first British production motor car in 1897.

Joseph Cash's weavers cottages built in the 1850s.

The three storey houses had well lit workshops on the top floor.  The workshops housed a steam powered Jacquard Loom for weaving ribbons, and allow home-workers to compete with ribbon produced in factories.  

'The Journeyman' by Stephen Hitchin

Art on the Coventry Canal

Statue of James Brindley (1716-1772) at the Canal Basin in the centre of Coventry city.

James Brindley designed almost all of the early canals in England including the Coventry Canal.  The Canal Basin was once a bustling place, busy with boats at the wharves loading and unloading materials for storage in the surrounding warehouses.

The Cathedral steps, Coventry.

The new cathedral, consecrated in 1962, was built after destruction of the medieval cathedral during bombing raids in the Second World War.  The sculpture designed by Sir Jacob Epstein, depicts St. Michael overcoming the Devil.

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Christmas Day in the Cotswolds

 St Nicolas, Oddington

Blenheim Palace 

Swans on the Lake, Blenhiem

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The Holly, Ivy and Mistletoe

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The Holly

 The Ivy

The Mistletoe

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Winter Sunshine and Wide Views

The cold, crisp days in December and January offer wide views over expansive landscapes and some of the best days to walk.

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Winter Willow

An old willow in the winter sunshine beside the river in the Evenlode valley near Charlbury.

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Winter sunshine

Sheep grazing in the winter sunshine.

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Crossing the railway track

Crossing the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway track when walking from Cheltenham.

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The Oxford Canal Walk: Banbury to Heyford

Travelling through the outskirts of Banbury

The canal path

A quiet day's fishing

King's Sutton Lock

Reflections

Lock keepers cottage

The sun sets over the canal

Settling down for the night

The Oxford Canal offers easy walking through lush Warwickshire and Oxfordshire countryside.

We organise accommodation and luggage transfer, contact us for more information.

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Walking in Wiltshire: Salisbury

Salisbury Cathedral displays the magnificent skills of medieval artists and craftsmen.

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Walking in Wiltshire: Avebury Stone Circle

Avebury Stone Circle lies in the Kennet Valley, Wiltshire, at the south-west end of the Ridgeway, one of England's National Walking Trails.

Avebury is at the centre of one of the greatest surviving concentrations of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in Western Europe. It is truly a very special and, for many, a mystical and sacred place.

The Outer Ring of the Stone Circle

The Cove Stones

The Ancient and the Medieval

Sweet music at the Wishing Trees

Wishing Tree shelter

with the bank and ditch of the henge in the background

Stone hugging at West Kennet Avenue

A sarsen stone on West Kennet Avenue

Lichens at home on the stones

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The RIDGEWAY NATIONAL TRAIL

and STONE CIRCLES (Stonehenge and Avebury)

Self-guided and Guided Walking Tours

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Walking in Wiltshire: Savernake Forest

Savernake Forest near Marlborough, Wiltshire, offers 4500 acres of magnificent native trees, both young and old. Many are very old, and at around 1000 years old, the Big Bellied Oak claims to be one of the oldest in England - a young sapling around the time of the Battle of Hastings, it now it stands with an impressive 11m girth. In fact, it got so big, that in 2002, a corset was fitted to stop it splitting in half.

The Big Bellied Oak

Legend tells that the devil will appear at midnight to anyone dancing naked around the Big Belly Oak, 12 times anticlockwise.

Tall beeches planted beside forest roads

Criss-crossed by tracks and avenues, this privately owned forest, managed by the Forestry Commission, is freely accessible to walkers although there are no public rights of way. The area is large enough for long walks of up to 10 miles.

A bronze, autumnal beech along a grassy track

The forest was first recorded in Saxon Charters in 934AD, and following the Norman Conquest in 1066 it passed into the care of the Norman Knight, Richard Esturmy. It was passed down through his family for 31 generations and for over 1000 years.

One of the many ancient oaks

Henry VIII hunted there and, soon after the execution of Anne Boleyn, he was so impressed by the steward’s daughter, that he married her. Sadly, Jane Seymour, his only wife to give him a son, died in childbirth.

Bracken adorns the forest floor

In the mid-18^th century the area of forest reached 40,000 acres, ten times bigger than it is now. The head of the family at the time had risen in status to become Governor to King George IV, and employed the famous landscape designer, Capability Brown, to plant the beech avenues that run through the heart of the Forest. These include the Grand Avenue which, at 3.9 miles, is the longest tree lined avenue in Britain.

Contact us if you are interested in walking through this fantastic forest, full of history, folklore and wildlife.

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Walking in Wiltshire: Stonehenge

Awesome Stonehenge

The Cursus Barrows

Gnarled Beech

The New King barrows

Approaching Stonehenge from the Avenue

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