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| If you are coming to Chippy
from the M40 direction there's a back road which has become my favourite way home from
London over the years. A road which wanders across the remote and pretty much unknown
hills of North Oxfordshire and gives you a taste of real countryside within moments of
turning off the motorway. The landscape is mostly gentle and the road deserted. There's a
stretch after Duns Tew with views across incomparably lovely English countryside. Its a
beautiful way of creeping up on Chippy which avoids any towns and at the most takes only
five minutes longer than driving round the Oxford Ring Road. With a side trip to one of
the great houses nearby (Rousham or Chastleton) and lunch in Deddington or at the pub in
Duns Tew, my back road would be the basis of a great quiet day out from London or
Birmingham
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| Turn off the M40 at Junction
10. Take the B430 (Direction- Middleton Stoney and Oxford). After half a mile turn right
by Ardley Church (Signpost for Somerton)
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| Follow the road to Somerton.
At the T-junction turn right down over the Oxford Canal.As you drive over the humpback
bridge look northwards at the fabulous stretch of the Oxford Canal.
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| Drive through the stone walls
of North Aston and cross the A4260 (the busy Oxford-Banbury road)
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| Go through Duns Tew past the
church. At the end of the village, fork left uphill again.
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| After a mile or so you reach
a T-junction. Turn left for half a mile, then right for the Tews (Signpost - Chipping
Norton)
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| If you really must you can make a
short detour on the right to see the local chocolate box village - Great Tew
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| Then either drive through
Little Tew straight on to Chippy or better - Turn left in the middle of Little Tew, and
then right after a mile through Heythrop.
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| To find the gallery. Follow
the road into Chipping Norton Market Square. DO NOT turn right with the A44 to Evesham at
the Town Hall. Go straight on for 200 yards. The gallery is on the right by the
mini-roundabout and opposite the Kings Arms. You can park through the gates in the drive. HOME
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