The booklet has now been published and is available from me at a cost of £4 plus P&P of £1.50. It has 48 pages with OS maps inside showing the routes. The cover is shown below.
Hook Norton Footpaths -8 Walks around the village
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Walks around Hooky – Map
Work on the revised walks booklet is progressing and we hope to get it printed in August. Colour maps will be a feature. Here is a map showing all eight routes. All of them start at St Peter’s Church.
Walks around Hooky
Recently I have been testing the walking routes that will be in the revised Walks around Hooky booklet the local history group are producing. Here are a selection of images from my travels.
Footpath and farm track leading to Coldharbour Farm near the north Oxfordshire village of Hook Norton 
Parched footpath leading from the north Oxfordshire village of Hook Norton towards Lodge Farm 
Swalcliffe Tithe Barn, a 15th century half cruck barn in the north Oxfordshire village of Swalcliffe 
A line of trees on the side of the long distance fotpath, the d”Arcy Dalton Way near the north Oxfordshire village of Swalcliffe 
Kissing gate stile in field on a footpath near the Oxfordshire village of Great Rollright 
Recently installed flight of steps on a footpath by Cowpasture Farm near the north Oxfordshire village of Hook Norton 
View of a footpath passing through a barley field near the north Oxfordshire village of Hook Norton
Photo website update
I have updated my photography website – www.davidmcgill.co.uk Please feel free to take a look.
In addition my gallery of new images has also been updated with a selection of photos taken this year.
Garden Work
We have had a busy two days. Last week we had a delivery of bedding plants from Yarnton Garden Centre. They have now reopened and I went down on Sunday to buy more bedding plants. We have now potted them all up and these photos show some of our efforts. There are still more plants to come that we ordered online so we are not quite finished yet. Hopefully they will be with us in the next week or so. Then we can enjoy the garden save for grass cutting and the weeding which seems to be never ending at this time of year.
This post makes a change from the doom and gloom of our “lock down” experiences!
Lockdown – Week 5
Still in lockdown, but now getting used to it. I’ve been making full use of the good weather and have produced these two planters for the garden. I’ve also made another smaller one. Just wondering what to do with the rest of the wood I have. I don’t want to use it all up at once as our local DIY stores have yet to reopen. There are big queues at the ones that have opened.
Spirits still okay, plenty of food and toilet roll! At least we won’t starve, neither will Jimmy, the dog! I suppose we are getting used to this new experience, but it will be great when we can actually do away from the “social distancing”. We can speak with friends but still have to keep 2m away from them or shout across the road.
Wildlife watching
I had a camera trap out over the weekend near the former viaducts in Hook Norton. Not much seen, however, this badger decided to pose for the camera.
Today’s photo
Strictly speaking not a photo taken today but one on a recent foggy morning. Seeing the frost first thing today inspired me to upload this image which was taken in February.
