Thames Path: Buscot to Cricklade: Along with my spouse and elder son I had on Saturdays unfold over a number of years walked a lot of the Thames path. We’d walked it chunks of round 8-12 miles a day between locations which might be reached by public transport however had come to a halt at Shifford, close to Hinton Waldrist, 9 miles to the southwest of Oxford from which, a minimum of again round 2012 it was nonetheless doable to take a bus. Because of cuts I feel the bus service is now too rare to be of use.
However additional upstream there was little or no public transport – and what little there was didn’t go in helpful instructions for us. So my son had booked us into a few inns to bridge the hole, giving three longish days of strolling. We travelled pretty mild with simply necessities in rucksacks – and naturally for me a small digital camera bag, but it surely was nonetheless pretty taxing – and one thing I couldn’t repeat now, 11 years later.
You possibly can learn my account of the three days, full with quite loads of photos on My London Dairy at Thames Path: Shifford to Buscot, Buscot to Cricklade and Cricklade to the Supply.
I’d stored my images tools minimal too, taking only one digital camera, a Fuji X-Pro1 and I feel two lenses. One was the Fujifilm XF18-55mmF2.8-4 R LM OIS, a mouthful virtually bigger than the lens itself, Fuji’s 18-55mm equipment lens. It’s a reasonably small and lightweight lens however a remarkably good one. Fuji has since introduced out zooms with wider focal size ranges, wider apertures (and better costs) and I’ve some, however inside its limitations I feel this stays my favorite.
I don’t assume I then owned a wider Fuji lens than the zoom with the 18mm being equal to 27mm on a full-frame digital camera, quite a moderated wide-angle for me, however for these scenes the place I felt a necessity for a wider view I additionally took my Nikon DX 10.5mm fisheye with a Fuji adaptor. Compact and light-weight, this labored effectively however was a bit fiddly to make use of. I’ve by no means discovered utilizing lenses with adaptors fairly as passable as these within the truly digital camera becoming. I don’t assume any of the photographs I put on-line for this part of the stroll have been made with this, although some for each different days are.
The Buscot to Cricklade part of the stroll was a bit shorter than the primary day after we in all probability walked a complete of sixteen or seventeen miles, however contains a few of the greatest and a few of the worst components of the route. There are some pleasant sections of riverside strolling and Lechlade is actually a city price visiting, as we did, though a diversion from the Thames Path itself.
The subsequent mile or so is arguably probably the most fascinating part of the Thames Path, a minimum of in its higher reaches, with the beginning of the Thames and Severn Canal. It’s additionally right here that the Thames towpath begins – or for us ends.
And a brief distance additional on is the outstanding St John the Baptist Church at Inglesham, saved and restored by William Morris and his his pre-Raphaelite buddies based the Society for the Safety of Historical Buildings (SPAB) or ‘Anti-Scrape’ to oppose the gothicisation of buildings akin to these.
However then comes an extended trek over a mile beside a busy A361 adopted by an extended one alongside alongside paths and lanes with hardly a sniff of a the river till you attain Citadel Eaton, a village which appeared closed (and its pub actually was.)
From there the trail does observe the river all the best way into Cricklade, although as I famous “going each course besides a straight line to there“. Lastly we arrived on the White Hart, supposedly the poshest and oldest principal teaching inn at Cricklade for the reason that time of Elizabeth 1 however purchased by Arkells Brewery in 1973. Our rooms in a extra trendy a part of the constructing have been snug sufficient however quite much less spectacular than these on the earlier night time at Buscot.
Thames Path: Cricklade to the Supply
Thames Path: Buscot to Cricklade
Thames Path: Shifford to Buscot
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