Route outline for walk ox124:
Lower Heyford - Heyford Wharfe - The Oxford Canal - Steeple Aston - The Eye Catcher (Folly) - River Cherwell - The Oxfordshire Canal Walk - The Oxford Canal - Allens Lock - Lower Heyford
Points of Interest/Notes on this walk:
The Eye Catcher folly was designed by William Kent in 1740 as a landscape feature for nearby Rousham House(open to the public).
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