This route is a showcase for the great riding, nature, views and history of this wonderful county. With millenia old trackways across chalk downland, through ancient hunting forests, past stately homes and pretty villages, while taking the cultural highlights and metropolitan city of Oxford. With Uffington Castle, the White Horse and Waylands Smithy in the south, and the Rollright Stones in the north, the history of settlement and veneration of the landscape in this county goes back almost 5000 years.Oxfordshire is not well known for it's mountain biking, but with the Chiltern escaprment to the south and the ridges and valleys of the Cotswolds to the north, I think you'd be surprised at the diversity of off road riding here. I've managed to keep this route almost entirely within the county boundry apart form a short section on the canal near Banbury. I would recommend using a mountain bike for this route as there are sustained sections of rough trails and not a lot of smooth gravel. Depending on the time of year you ride this route you could find overgrown trails, mud and puddles, but also dry fast singletrack, smooth fun farm trails, or a whole mixture in between.Oxford has great transport links to the Midlands, the East, West and South of England, it being only 60 miles from London. While there's not an abondance of accomodation options out in the countryside, there's plenty around the towns and cities, and plenty of grocery shops or places to stop for food and drink on the route. There's a few water taps on the Ridgeway, and otherwise it's worth looking in cemeteries for open taps to fill up from.