A nice ride, with lots of cafes, and - for places in the Cotswolds - not exhorbitantly priced.

• At Charlbury, follow the B4026 to Chipping Norton.
• Ignore the A44 to Moreton, but instead go through the town centre and turn left at the double roundabout to Over Norton (up a steep hill).
• At the top of the hill, turn left, still climbing though more gently. There is a steep descent past a road joining from the right to a crossroads.
• Continue straight over the crossroads, then after 1/4 mile, turn right to Long Compton on the A3400.
• Turn left and left agin in Long Compton, signposted to Barton-on-the-Heath. There is a drag up to a T-junction; turn right here down a very muddy road to Great Wolford.
• Go straight through Great Wolford (ignoring another sign to Moreton) to the village of Todenham - turn left here to Moreton-in-Marsh.
• Coming home, take the A44 Oxford road over the railway, then turn right whilst still in the outskirts of the town (signposted to Evenlode).
• Follow the road through Evenlode; soon after turn left (or rather, don't turn right to Broadwell; if you do, you cross the railway line and end up in Stow). Instead, stay on the NE side of the railway line to a Y-junction.
• Turn right at the Y-junction, signposted Stow - Chipping Norton, to come out on the A436. Turn left then right. (Alternatively, at the Y-jct if you go left, you go uphill through Adlestrop to come out again on the A436; turn right down the hill then left).
• Either way, keep going to Kingham.
• Follow the signs through Kingham to Kingham Station until you reach the B4450; then turn right and left through Lyneham to Ascott-under-Wychwood, from where you follow the directions for Stow in reverse back to Oxford.