d'Arcy Dalton Way
A 66-mile long-distance walk linking the Oxford Canal towpath, the Oxfordshire Way, the Thames Path, and the Ridgeway. With map, statistics, and GPX route file.
Statistics and Files
Grid Ref: SP 447 517
Distance: 66 miles (106 km)
Time: 25–33 hours
Duration: 4–6 days
Ordnance Survey Explorer Maps (1:25,000):
OL45 The Cotswolds
170 Vale of White Horse, Abingdon-on-Thames, Wantage, Wallingford and Faringdon
191 Banbury, Bicester and Chipping Norton
206 Edge Hill and Fenny Compton
Summary
The d’Arcy Dalton Way is a long-distance footpath created in 1986 to celebrate the Oxford Fieldpaths Society’s diamond jubilee. It was named after Colonel d’Arcy Dalton, one of the founding members of the Society. The idea behind the Way was to form a link between the Oxford Canal towpath, the Oxfordshire Way, the Thames Path, and the Ridgeway. Taking a north-to-south course through the counties of Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, and Oxfordshire, the d’Arcy Dalton Way runs from its start at Wormleighton Reservoir to its finish at Wayland’s Smithy Long Barrow. Along the way, it visits Farnborough, Mollington, Shotteswell, Hornton, Alkerton, Shenington, Epwell, Sibford Ferris, Hook Norton, Great Rollright, the Whispering Knights Burial Chamber and King’s Men stone circle, Salford, Cornwell, Churchill, Lyneham Barrow, Bruern Abbey, Fifield, Tangley Hall, Great and Little Barrington, Westwell, Holwell, Filkins, Broadwell, Little Clanfield, Radcot Bridge (River Thames), Eaton Hastings, Coleshill, Longcot, and Compton Beauchamp.