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
William Huskisson statue
Wonders of Photoshop
I made the most of a couple of sunny days last week and ended up in neighbouring Warwickshire in the village of Wormleighton to be precise. Here are a pair of images of a photogenic barn in the village, one with the wheelie bin kept in and the other with it removed using Photoshop.
