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Day 3 - Monday 10th August 2009 |
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Monday 10th August 2009 Depending on how yesterday went you may either be raring to go or dreading the whole thought of another day's canoeing. Tough, were off to Oxford.
Day 3 Details Start location Site Name
| Dairy Farm
| Site Address | Duxford Farringdon SN7 8SQ View map | | Distance from start of journey (miles) | 20.2 | Estimated departure time
| 1100
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Our Journey Distance from start of the day (miles)
| Points of interest | 0.5
| Shifford Lock
| | 3.5 | River Windrush joins from the left. Newbridge built in 1250. | 4
| Hart's weir footbridge
| 5.5
| Northmoor Lock - we'll stop for lunch here Approx arrival time 1300 | 7
| Bablock Hythe - A ford since Roman times. An old ferry is now only intermittently operational. Until the 1960s there was a car ferry here! | 8
| The grassy bank of the enormous Farnmoor reservoir appears on the right, and the river enters a series of meanders.
| 9.5
| Pinkhill Lock
| 10.5
| Swinford Toll Bridge - One of only two current toll bridges on the non-tidal Thames. Whitchurch is the other. | | 11 | Eynsham Lock - LUNCH!
| 12
| River Evenlode joins from the left for Kings Lock take the main channel to the right | 13.5
| Kings Lock
| | 14.3 | A34 Oxford Bypass bridge
| 14.5 | Godstow Bridge - Built 1792. | | 15 | Port meadow to the left
| | 16 | Medley Footbridge
| | 16.5 | Osney Bridge - a beautiful bridge with just 7'6" clearance, which keeps the bigger boast off the upper reaches of the Thames | | 16.7 | Osney Lock | | 16.8 | Osney Marina - Just on the left after the lock. We camp here.
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End of day location Site Name
| Osney Marina
| Site Address | Mill St
Oxford OX2 0NA
01865 240 480
view map | | Distance from start of journey (miles) | 37
| Estimated arrival time
| 1800
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Last Updated on Friday, 31 July 2009 12:20 |