V - Grove to Wantage Linear Walk

Vale of White Horse Group

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Overview

This is a short linear walk from Grove to Wantage, where we will catch one of the many buses back to Grove. There are no stiles or hills. We will leave Grove via Cane Lane, continue along the perimeter track of RAF Grove to East Challow, and return to Wantage via the Vale Way alongside the old Wilts and Berks canal, finishing at the bus stop in the Market Square. Vale Walk Leader PR 07418 078044

Thursday, 11 September 2025

Start time:: 10:30 am
Estimated finish time:: 12:55 pm

Difficulty:: Leisurely
Distance:: 6.9km / 4.3mi
Ascent:: N/A
Type:: linear

Website:: https://www.google.com/maps/place/51.60974,-1.42238

Unless email is specifically requested in the walk description, please use the Walk Leader's telephone number(s) for any queries or bookings.

Features

Introductory walk

Starting point

Grid reference:: SU 40096 90260
Nearest postcode:: OX12 7JZ
what3words:: nudge.dared.invents

Start time:: 10:30 am

Grove, Millbrook Square. Parking restrictions apply. Park considerately nearby

Finishing point

Grid reference:: SU 39794 87887
Nearest postcode:: OX12 8AB
what3words:: flattered.tanks.surround

Estimated finish time:: 12:55 pm

Wantage, Market Place outside The Bear Hotel

Upcoming walks with Vale of White Horse Group

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Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.7 miles

WO/V - Pinkhill Lock

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Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.5 miles

V - Short walk in and around Wantage

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Difficulty:: Leisurely

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V - Abingdon to Kennington Circular

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Difficulty:: Moderate

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V - Around the Baldons

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V - Abingdon, Drayton Sutton Courtenay circular

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V - Area picnic walk 1. Harwell campus history walk

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V - Area picnic walk 4. Ridgeway and Downs circular

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Difficulty:: Moderate

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V - Area picnic walk 3. A circular walk on the Ridgeway and Icknield Way

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Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.0 miles

V - Area picnic walk 6. Ridgeway and Downs circular

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Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

V - Area picnic walk 2. A leisurely lowland walk from Blewbury

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Difficulty:: Leisurely

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V - Area picnic walk 5. Ridgeway and Downs circular

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Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.5 miles

V/WO - Northmoor circular along the River Thames

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Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.0 miles

V - Faringdon to Longcot on The Vale Way

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Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.8 miles

V - The Vale Way, Longcot to Stanford in the Vale

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Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.2 miles

V - From Stanford in the Vale to Cherbury Camp

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.4 miles

V - Abingdon to Steventon on the Vale Way linear

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.9 miles

WO/V - Finstock via Charlbury and Cornbury Park

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.5 miles

V - Wantage, W. Lockinge and the Downs circular

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.0 miles

V - The Vale Way, Stanford in the Vale to Ardington

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.2 miles

V - Childrey and Letcombes circular

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Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.8 miles

V - Abingdon, Culham circular

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.5 miles

V - Marsh Baldon circular

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.0 miles

V - Blewbury and Juniper Valley circular

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.5 miles

V - Stanford in the Vale circular

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.8 miles

V - The Vale Way, Ardington to Abingdon

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.2 miles

V/WO - Cumnor, Thames Path circular

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 6.3 miles

V - Uffington circular via Fernham

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.7 miles

V - Circular from Wantage via Lockinge in memory of Nik Bergson

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.5 miles

V - Faringdon circular via Stanford Place

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 4.3 miles

Cancelled: V - Blewbury and Juniper Valley circular

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Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 8.5 miles

V - West Hendred Circular via Ardington Lock

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Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.5 miles

V - Booking Required. Vale Group Summer Awayday: Alton Barnes, circular walk on downs and canal

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Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 10.5 miles

Cancelled: V - Car Park on Ridgeway near Ashbury, loop to Bishopstone and Ashbury

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Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 13.0 miles

WO/V - BOOKING REQUIRED - Newbridge to Standlake Circular

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Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.5 miles

V - A Short Walk from Wantage

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Difficulty:: Leisurely

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V - The Lambourn Valley Way, Newbury to Great Shefford

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Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 12.0 miles

V - Sparsholt Firs circular

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.5 miles

V - Abingdon, Oxford on the Thames Path

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 9.0 miles

V - Ardington, the Ridgeway and downs

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 13.0 miles

V/WO - Begbroke and Bladon (Churchill's grave)

Start:

Difficulty:: Leisurely

Distance:: 5.5 miles

V - From Faringdon to Littleworth via Radcot Lock

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Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 7.5 miles

V - The Lambourn Valley Way, Great Shefford to White Horse Hill

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 11.0 miles

V - Chilton and Ridgeway circular

Start:

Difficulty:: Moderate

Distance:: 6.8 miles