is the last village passed on the way to Oxford. It is a sleepy and picturesque little place with a small market hall, the shaft of a fifteenth-century cross, and an inn-sign of the drollest order. This sign hangs outside the Red Lion, and the King of Beasts is painted on one side, but the draughtsman had difficulty in accommodating the tail, and he solved it by the original plan of painting the caudal appendage on the opposite face of the sign!
Just below Eynsham the road crosses the Thames at Swinford Bridge, where the beautiful hanging woods of Wytham Hill are on the left, and a couple of miles farther on the spires and towers of Oxford are in sight.
THE CHURCH PORCH AT NORTHLEACH.
A rare example of the stateliness of Perpendicular architecture in a village church.
LOOP No. 8
OXFORD TO STRATFORD-ON-AVON, COVENTRY, BANBURY, AND OXFORD, 110 MILES
DISTANCES ALONG THE ROUTE
| Miles. | ||
| Oxford to Woodstock | 8 | |
| Woodstock to Enstone | 6 | ¾ |
| Enstone to Long Compton | 8 | |
| Long Compton to Shipstone-on-Stour | 5 | ¾ |
| Shipstone-on-Stour to Stratford-on-Avon | 10 | ½ |
| Stratford-on-Avon to Leamington | 10 | ½ |
| Leamington to Warwick | 2 | ¼ |
| Warwick to Kenilworth | 4 | ¾ |
| Kenilworth to Coventry | 5 | ¾ |
| Coventry to Princethorpe | 7 | |
| Princethorpe to Southam | 6 | |
| Southam to Fenny Compton | 5 | ½ |
| Fenny Compton to Banbury | 8 | ¼ |
| Banbury to Deddington | 6 | |
| Deddington to Sturdy's Castle Inn | 7 | ¾ |
| Sturdy's Castle Inn to Kidlington | 2 | |
| Kidlington to Oxford, Carfax | 5 | ¼ |
NOTES FOR DRIVERS
Oxford to Stratford.—Splendid surface; steep drop down to Long Compton.