The Dreaming Spires 300km - An Offroad Loop Around Oxfordshire
The Dreaming Spires 300km - An Offroad Loop Around Oxfordshire
ColecciĂłn de Doubletrackfanatic
3
dĂas
7-7Â h
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310Â km
2.600Â m
2.600Â m
This route is a showcase for the great riding, nature, views and history of this wonderful county. With millenia old trackways across chalk downland, through ancient hunting forests, past stately homes and pretty villages, while taking the cultural highlights and metropolitan city of Oxford. With Uffington Castle, the White Horse and Waylands Smithy in the south, and the Rollright Stones in the north, the history of settlement and veneration of the landscape in this county goes back almost 5000 years.Oxfordshire is not well known for it's mountain biking, but with the Chiltern escaprment to the south and the ridges and valleys of the Cotswolds to the north, I think you'd be surprised at the diversity of off road riding here. I've managed to keep this route almost entirely within the county boundry apart form a short section on the canal near Banbury. I would recommend using a mountain bike for this route as there are sustained sections of rough trails and not a lot of smooth gravel. Depending on the time of year you ride this route you could find overgrown trails, mud and puddles, but also dry fast singletrack, smooth fun farm trails, or a whole mixture in between.Oxford has great transport links to the Midlands, the East, West and South of England, it being only 60 miles from London. While there's not an abondance of accomodation options out in the countryside, there's plenty around the towns and cities, and plenty of grocery shops or places to stop for food and drink on the route. There's a few water taps on the Ridgeway, and otherwise it's worth looking in cemeteries for open taps to fill up from.
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La ruta comienza en el centro de la ciudad de Oxford con algunos senderos agradables que recorren los bordes de los suburbios y el cinturón verde, y finalmente sale por Old Road hacia Londres a través de Shotover Country Park.

Luego se adentra en el campo propiamente dicho a través de los hermosos pueblos…
Comenzando por Rridgeway, que es una antigua ruta comercial a lo largo de la cresta más septentrional de las colinas de Chiltern, eventualmente terminará pasando por Uffington hillfort con sus enormes murallas de tierra y el Caballo Blanco tallado en su cara de tiza, luego pasará por Waylands Smithy…
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La secciĂłn final de la ruta pasa por alto Chipping Norton, hogar de un anterior Primer Ministro y varios magnates de los medios, pasa Rollright Stones, el más oriental de todos los cĂrculos de piedra en el Reino Unido, y a lo largo de una gran y alta cresta, con amplias vistas a travĂ©s Oxfordshire y…
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