Group walk: The Canal, Bloxham, Hatchet Lane

Sunday 19^th October 2025 4 miles

Date: : Sunday 19^th October

Time: 10.00 am – 12.00 pm

Location: Bedwyn Wharf, Brook St, SN8 3PB

This leisurely 4 mile route leaves the wharf along the towpath, passing under bridge 99, a John Rennie designed skew bridge built in 1807. There’s an information board on the top of the bridge explaining the bridge’s significance. For reasons which will become obvious from the bridge, it is now known locally as ‘The Bridge to nowhere’.

At Crofton the route leaves the towpath and crosses the pedestrian rail crossing on the Roman Rd to return to Bedwyn village along tracks to the north of the canal and railway, above Bloxham and passing close to Haw Wood. The walk ends down Hatchet Lane to the end of Church St.

8 walkers ignored the impending rain which arrived during the morning of our October group walk. The track by Haw Wood can get very muddy in the ruts in wet conditions but the extreme hot and dry conditions of the extended summer season meant that it wasn’t too muddy for this autumn walk.

No stiles on route, two pedestrian railway crossings, towpath eroded in places.

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