Oxford Canal (Southern Section - Main Line)

The maximum dimensions for a boat to be able to travel on the waterway are 70 feet long and 7 feet wide. The maximum headroom is 6 feet and 9 inches. The maximum draught is 4 feet and 5 inches.
It has junctions with the River Thames (Sheepwash Channel) at Isis Lock Junction; with the Oxford Canal (Duke's Cut) at Wolvercote Junction and with the Oxford Canal (Old Engine House Arm) at Old Engine House Arm Junction.
Notable features of the waterway include Napton Locks and Claydon Locks
The waterway passes through Banbury and City of Oxford
The navigational authority for this waterway is Canal & River TrustRelevant publications — Waterway Travels:
Relevant publications — Waterway Maps:
Relevant publications — Waterway Guides:
- Collins Nicholson Waterways Guides No 1 - Grand Union, Oxford & the South East
- Pearson's Canal Companions: Oxford & Grand Union; Upper Thames
Relevant publications — Waterway Histories:
| End of Hythe Bridge Arm End of navigation at Oxford |
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| Oxford Visitor Moorings City centre 5 minutes walk |
a few yards | 0 locks | |
| Isis Sanitary Station | ½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Isis Lock Junction | ¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Hythe Bridge Arm Winding Hole The last opportunity to wind before the end of the navigation. |
1 furlong | 0 locks | |
| Jericho Canal Wharf | 1¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Combe Road Wharf College Cruisers hire base |
2¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Jericho Footbridge | 2½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Walton Well Road Bridge No 242 | 4½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Aristotle Lane 48 hour Visitor Moorings Just South of Aristotle Bridge |
7½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Aristotle Bridge No 240 | 7½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Heyfield Hut Wharf | 7¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Frenchay Bridge No 239A | 1 mile and 1¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Site of Lift Bridge No 239 Replaced by a fixed bridge 60yds north |
1 mile and 2¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Elizabeth Jennings Way Bridge No 238B A replacement for Electric Lift Bridge No 239A |
1 mile and 3 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| St Edwards Lift Bridge No 238 | 1 mile and 4½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Site of Second St Edwards Lift Bridge | 1 mile and 6¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Wolvercote Railway Bridge No 236A | 1 mile and 7¼ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Wolvercote Green Field Bridge No 236 | 2 miles and 2 furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Wolvercote Footbridge | 2 miles and 3½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Wolvercote Bridge No 235 | 2 miles and 3½ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Wolvercote Lock No 45 | 2 miles and 3¾ furlongs | 0 locks | |
| Wolvercote Sanitary Station | 2 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Perrys Lift Bridge No 234 | 2 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Western Bypass Bridge | 2 miles and 7 furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Lift Bridge No 233 (Oxford Canal) Bridge almost under the Oxford Bypass (A34T) bridge |
2 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Northern Bypass Road Bridge No 232A | 2 miles and 7¾ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Wolvercote Junction Moorings | 3 miles and ½ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Wolvercote Junction Junction of Duke's Cut with Oxford Canal |
3 miles and ¾ furlongs | 1 lock | |
| Duke's Lock No 44 | 3 miles and 1 furlong | 1 lock | |
| Wolvercote Junction Water Point | 3 miles and 1½ furlongs | 2 locks | |
| Drinkwater's Field Bridge No 231A | 3 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 2 locks | |
| Drinkwater's Lift Bridge No 231 | 3 miles and 3½ furlongs | 2 locks | |
| King's Bridge No 230 | 3 miles and 5½ furlongs | 2 locks | |
| Site of Alchemy Boatbuilders Closed May 2017 |
3 miles and 5¾ furlongs | 2 locks | |
| Stratfield Brake Bridge No 229 A 'temporary' wooden foot bridge |
4 miles | 2 locks | |
| Kidlington Green Pipe Bridges | 4 miles and ¾ furlongs | 2 locks | |
| Kidlington Green Lock No 43 | 4 miles and 4 furlongs | 2 locks | |
| Yarnton Lane Bridge No 228 Kidlington half a mile north |
4 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Bullers Bridge No 227 | 5 miles and ½ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Kidlington Railway Bridge | 5 miles and 3 furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Roundham Bridge No 226 | 5 miles and 3½ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Roundham Lock No 42 | 5 miles and 3¾ furlongs | 3 locks | |
| Site of Bridge No 225 | 5 miles and 5 furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Henderson Bridge No 224A | 5 miles and 6¾ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Langford Wharf | 6 miles and 1 furlong | 4 locks | |
| The Highwayman PH and Restaurant | 6 miles and 1¼ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Langford Lane Bridge No 224 | 6 miles and 1½ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Langford Lane Moorings 100 yards north of Bridge No 224 |
6 miles and 2½ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Sparrowgap Bridge No 223 | 6 miles and 3½ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| The Jolly Boatman PH Canalside |
6 miles and 3½ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Site of Bridge No 222 | 6 miles and 5½ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| The Boat Inn (Thrupp) Canalside |
6 miles and 5½ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Thrupp Visitor Moorings | 6 miles and 6¼ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Aubreys Lift Bridge No 221 | 6 miles and 6¾ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Annie's Tea Rooms | 6 miles and 7 furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Thrupp Wide | 6 miles and 7 furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Thrupp Cruising Club | 6 miles and 7 furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Shipton Bridge No 220 | 7 miles and 2¼ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Shipton Railway Bridge | 7 miles and 4¼ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Shipton Lift Bridge No 219 | 7 miles and 5 furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Shipton Weir Bridge No 218 | 7 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Shipton Weir Lock No 41 South end of River Cherwell section |
7 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 4 locks | |
| Shipton Weir Junction The River Cherwell continues to the left of the lock |
7 miles and 7½ furlongs | 5 locks | |
| Railway Bridge over River Cherwell No 217A | 8 miles and 4 furlongs | 5 locks | |
| Horse Bridge Junction Bridge No 217, towpath bridge across the Cherwell |
8 miles and 5½ furlongs | 5 locks | |
| Baker's Lock No 40 North end of River Cherwell section |
8 miles and 6¼ furlongs | 5 locks | |
| Enslow Bridge No 216A | 9 miles and 1 furlong | 6 locks | |
| Old Enslow Bridge No 216 | 9 miles and 1 furlong | 6 locks | |
| Rock of Gibraltar PH Closed and derelict (2020) |
9 miles and 1½ furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Enslow Railway Bridge Narrows | 9 miles and 2 furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Enslow Railway Bridge No 215A | 9 miles and 2 furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Enslow Wharf | 9 miles and 2½ furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Enslow Winding Hole | 9 miles and 3½ furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Site of Caravan Lift Bridge No 215 | 9 miles and 6¼ furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Pinsey Bridge No 214 | 10 miles and 1½ furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Pigeon Bridge No 213 | 10 miles and 3½ furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Pigeon's Lock No 39 | 10 miles and 3¾ furlongs | 6 locks | |
| Jane's Enchanted Tea Garden Closed since Covid |
10 miles and 4½ furlongs | 7 locks | |
| Kirtlington Winding Hole | 11 miles and 1 furlong | 7 locks | |
| Kirtlington Pipe Bridge | 11 miles and 1¼ furlongs | 7 locks | |
| Old Brighton Bridge No 212 | 11 miles and 6¼ furlongs | 7 locks | |
| New Brighton Bridge No 211 | 12 miles and ¾ furlongs | 7 locks | |
| Northbrook Lock No 38 | 12 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 7 locks | |
| Northbrook Bridge No 210 | 12 miles and 4 furlongs | 8 locks | |
| Dashwood's Bridge No 209 | 13 miles | 8 locks | |
| Dashwood's Lock No 37 | 13 miles | 8 locks | |
| High Bush Bridge No 208 | 13 miles and 2 furlongs | 9 locks | |
| The Cleeves Winding Hole | 13 miles and 7½ furlongs | 9 locks | |
| Cleves Bridge No 207 | 14 miles and ¾ furlongs | 9 locks | |
| Heyford Wharf Bridge No 206 | 14 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 9 locks | |
| Heyford Wharf Oxfordshire Narrowboats |
14 miles and 3½ furlongs | 9 locks | |
| Heyford Wharf Winding Hole | 14 miles and 3½ furlongs | 9 locks | |
| Heyford Wharf Narrows | 14 miles and 4 furlongs | 9 locks | |
| Lower Heyford Visitor Moorings | 14 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 9 locks | |
| Mill Lift Bridge No 205 | 14 miles and 6¾ furlongs | 9 locks | |
| Allen's Bridge No 204 | 15 miles and 4¾ furlongs | 9 locks | |
| The Barley Mow (Upper Heyford) Non-canalside pub located about half a mile away in the village centre accessed via Allens Lane and Mill Lane |
15 miles and 4¾ furlongs | 9 locks | |
| Allen's Lock No 36 Bridge leads to Upper Heyford village |
15 miles and 4¾ furlongs | 9 locks | |
| Double Bridge No 203 | 15 miles and 5¾ furlongs | 10 locks | |
| Single Bridge No 202 | 15 miles and 7½ furlongs | 10 locks | |
| Heyford Common Railway Bridge No 201 | 16 miles and 1 furlong | 10 locks | |
| Heyford Common Bridge No 200 | 16 miles and 2 furlongs | 10 locks | |
| Heyford Common Lock No 35 | 16 miles and 2¼ furlongs | 10 locks | |
| Somerton Mill Pipe Bridge | 16 miles and 6 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Somerton Mill Bridge No 199 | 16 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Deep Cutting Bridge No 198 | 17 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Somerton Narrows | 17 miles and 6½ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Somerton Bridge Winding Hole Shallow and chained off |
17 miles and 7½ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Somerton Bridge No 196 | 18 miles | 11 locks | |
| Meadlands Bridge No 195 | 18 miles and 3¾ furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Somerton Deep Lock Bridge No 194 | 18 miles and 5 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Somerton Deep Lock No 34 | 18 miles and 5 furlongs | 11 locks | |
| Somerton Deep Lock Winding Hole | 18 miles and 5½ furlongs | 12 locks | |
| Chisnell Lift Bridge No 193 | 19 miles and 1¾ furlongs | 12 locks | |
| Souldern Brook Culvert | 19 miles and 2 furlongs | 12 locks | |
| Souldern Wharf | 19 miles and 6¾ furlongs | 12 locks | |
| Souldern Bridge No 192 | 19 miles and 7 furlongs | 12 locks | |
| Site of Bridge No 191 | 20 miles and ¼ furlongs | 12 locks | |
| Aynho Bridge No 190 Ayhno village 1.25 miles northeast up B4031 |
20 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 12 locks | |
| The Great Western Arms PH Canalside |
20 miles and 3½ furlongs | 12 locks | |
| Aynho Wharf | 20 miles and 3¾ furlongs | 12 locks | |
| Belchers Lift Bridge No 189 | 20 miles and 7 furlongs | 12 locks | |
| Aynho Weir Lock No 33 | 21 miles and 3 furlongs | 12 locks | |
| Aynho Weir Lock Bridge No 188 | 21 miles and 3 furlongs | 13 locks | |
| Aynho Weir Junction River Cherwell enters the canal |
21 miles and 3 furlongs | 13 locks | |
| Aynho Weir Oxford Canal crosses the River Cherwell |
21 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 13 locks | |
| Nell Bridge No 187 | 21 miles and 5¾ furlongs | 13 locks | |
| Nell Bridge Lock No 32 | 21 miles and 5¾ furlongs | 13 locks | |
| Winding Hole above Nell Bridge Lock | 21 miles and 6¼ furlongs | 14 locks | |
| Haddons Lift Bridge No 186 | 21 miles and 6½ furlongs | 14 locks | |
| Nells Bridge Narrows Farm shop & moorings |
21 miles and 7 furlongs | 14 locks | |
| The Pig Place | 21 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 14 locks | |
| Coles Bridge Narrows | 22 miles and 4½ furlongs | 14 locks | |
| Coles Lift Bridge No 183 | 22 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 14 locks | |
| M40 Motorway Bridge No 182A | 22 miles and 5¾ furlongs | 14 locks | |
| Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway Bridge (dismantled) | 22 miles and 7½ furlongs | 14 locks | |
| Coles Lift Bridge No 182 | 23 miles and 1½ furlongs | 14 locks | |
| Scroobys Lift Bridge No 181 | 23 miles and 3¾ furlongs | 14 locks | |
| Site of Swingbridge No 180 | 23 miles and 4¼ furlongs | 14 locks | |
| Tarver's Bridge No 179 | 23 miles and 5 furlongs | 14 locks | |
| King's Sutton Lock No 31 | 23 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 14 locks | |
| Site of Swingbridge No 178 | 23 miles and 6½ furlongs | 15 locks | |
| Twyford Bridge No 177 | 24 miles and 2¾ furlongs | 15 locks | |
| Twyford Wharf Home of Twyford Wharf Narrow Boats (boat hire) |
24 miles and 3 furlongs | 15 locks | |
| Twyford Wharf Winding Hole | 24 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 15 locks | |
| Stevens Lift Bridge No 176 | 24 miles and 4¾ furlongs | 15 locks | |
| Stevens Lift Bridge No 175 | 24 miles and 6½ furlongs | 15 locks | |
| Grant's Lock Bridge No 174 | 25 miles and ¼ furlongs | 15 locks | |
| Grant's Lock No 30 | 25 miles and ¼ furlongs | 15 locks | |
| M40 Bridge Bridge No 173A (northern crossing) | 25 miles and 2¼ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Lift Bridge No 173 (Oxford Canal) | 25 miles and 2¾ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Nadkey Bridge No 172 | 25 miles and 4½ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Foxes Lift Bridge No 171 | 25 miles and 6¼ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Haynes Lift Bridge No 170 | 25 miles and 7¾ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Site of Swingbridge No 169 | 26 miles and 2¼ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Calthorpe Winding Hole | 26 miles and 4 furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Tramway Road Pipe Bridge | 26 miles and 6 furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Tramway Road Bridge No 168 | 26 miles and 6 furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Site of Swingbridge No 167 | 26 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Cherwell Wharf | 26 miles and 7¾ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Bridge Wharf (Banbury) | 27 miles and ½ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Bridge Street Bridge No 166 | 27 miles and ¾ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Bridge Street Park Visitor Moorings 180' length of 48hr moorings |
27 miles and 1¼ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Cherwell Street Bridge No 165A | 27 miles and 1¼ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Cherwell Street Facilities | 27 miles and 1¼ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Concorde Avenue Bridge No 165 | 27 miles and 1½ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Banbury Lock No 29 | 27 miles and 1½ furlongs | 16 locks | |
| Site of Banbury Wharf | 27 miles and 1¾ furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Lift Bridge No 164 (Oxford Canal) | 27 miles and 2 furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Tooley's Boatyard Historic drydock and workshops |
27 miles and 2¼ furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Tooley's Boatyard Footbridge | 27 miles and 2¼ furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Castle Quay Footbridge | 27 miles and 2¾ furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Tom Rolt Bridge No 164 | 27 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Sovereign Wharf | 27 miles and 3¾ furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Marsh Footbridge No 163 | 27 miles and 5½ furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Grimsbury Wharf | 27 miles and 7 furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Hennef Way Bridge No 162 | 27 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Southam Road Winding Hole | 28 miles and ¼ furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Southam Road Footbridge No 161 | 28 miles and 2¾ furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Southam Road Footbridge Arm | 28 miles and 2¾ furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Site of Old Bridge No 161 | 28 miles and 4¾ furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Banbury Railway Bridge No 161A | 28 miles and 6½ furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Hardwick Lock Field Bridge No 160 | 28 miles and 7 furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Hardwick Lock No 28 | 28 miles and 7 furlongs | 17 locks | |
| Hardwick Lock Motorway Bridge No 159A | 29 miles and ½ furlongs | 18 locks | |
| Motorway Field Bridge No 159 | 29 miles and 1½ furlongs | 18 locks | |
| Little Bourton Lock No 27 | 29 miles and 5½ furlongs | 18 locks | |
| Little Bourton Bridge No 158 Little Bourton, 1/2 mile west of here across the railway crossing. |
29 miles and 6¾ furlongs | 19 locks | |
| Caves Bridge No 157 | 30 miles and 2½ furlongs | 19 locks | |
| Slat Mill Lock No 26 | 30 miles and 4¼ furlongs | 19 locks | |
| Slat Mill Bridge No 156 | 30 miles and 5 furlongs | 20 locks | |
| Williamscot Field Bridge No 155 | 31 miles | 20 locks | |
| Old Mill Field Bridge No 154 | 31 miles and 2 furlongs | 20 locks | |
| Cropredy Services | 31 miles and 5½ furlongs | 20 locks | |
| The Bridge Store Currently closed |
31 miles and 5½ furlongs | 20 locks | |
| Cropredy Wharf Bridge No 153 Cropredy |
31 miles and 5½ furlongs | 20 locks | |
| Cropredy Wharf Narrows | 31 miles and 6 furlongs | 20 locks | |
| Cropredy Lock Bridge No 152 | 31 miles and 6½ furlongs | 20 locks | |
| The Red Lion PH (Cropredy) Non-canalside pub located 100 yds west down Red Lion Street from Cropredy lock bridge. |
31 miles and 6½ furlongs | 20 locks | |
| Cropredy Lock No 25 | 31 miles and 6½ furlongs | 20 locks | |
| Site of Swingbridge No 151 | 32 miles and ¼ furlongs | 21 locks | |
| Cropredy Marina (southern basin) | 32 miles and 2 furlongs | 21 locks | |
| Cropredy Marina (northern basins) | 32 miles and 2¼ furlongs | 21 locks | |
| Broadmoor Bridge No 150 | 32 miles and 4¼ furlongs | 21 locks | |
| Broadmoor Lock No 24 | 32 miles and 4½ furlongs | 21 locks | |
| Slipway above Broadmoor Lock | 32 miles and 6 furlongs | 22 locks | |
| Varney's Lock No 23 | 32 miles and 6½ furlongs | 22 locks | |
| Varney's Lock Field Bridge No 149 | 32 miles and 7¼ furlongs | 23 locks | |
| Elkington's Bridge No 148 | 33 miles and ½ furlongs | 23 locks | |
| Elkington's Lock No 22 | 33 miles and ½ furlongs | 23 locks | |
| Clattercote Wharf | 33 miles and 1¾ furlongs | 24 locks | |
| Clattercote Bridge No 147 | 33 miles and 5 furlongs | 24 locks | |
| Clattercote Bridge Winding Hole | 33 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 24 locks | |
| Claydon Bottom Bridge No 146 | 33 miles and 7¾ furlongs | 24 locks | |
| Claydon Bottom Lock No 21 | 33 miles and 7¾ furlongs | 24 locks | |
| Claydon Lock No 20 | 34 miles and 1 furlong | 25 locks | |
| Claydon Lock Bridge No 145 | 34 miles and 1½ furlongs | 26 locks | |
| Claydon Lock No 19 | 34 miles and 1¾ furlongs | 26 locks | |
| Claydon Lock No 18 | 34 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 27 locks | |
| Claydon Top Lock No 17 | 34 miles and 4 furlongs | 28 locks | |
| Claydon Top Lock Bridge No 144 | 34 miles and 4½ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Hay Bridge No 143 | 35 miles and ¾ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Feeder Bridge No 142 The bridge is a towpath bridge over the feeder from Boddington Reservoir. |
35 miles and 3 furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Boundary Lift Bridge No 141 | 35 miles and 5½ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Site of Wormleighton Railway Bridge (narrows) The East and West Junction Railway once crossed the canal here. |
35 miles and 7¾ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Wormleighton Reservoir Bridge No 139 | 36 miles and 1¾ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Fenny Compton 'Tunnel' (eastern entrance) | 36 miles and 5 furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Fenny Compton Bridge No 138 | 37 miles and ¾ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Fenny Compton Turnover Bridge No 137A | 37 miles and 1 furlong | 29 locks | |
| Tunnel Bridge No 137 | 37 miles and 2 furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Fenny Compton 'Tunnel' (western entrance) | 37 miles and 2¼ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Fenny Compton Marina | 37 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Fenny Compton Wharf | 38 miles | 29 locks | |
| The Wharf Inn (Fenny Compton) Canalside |
38 miles | 29 locks | |
| Fenny Compton Bridge No 136 | 38 miles | 29 locks | |
| Fenny Compton Bridge No 136A | 38 miles and ¼ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Sherne Hill Bridge No 135 Wormleighton three-quarters of a mile east |
38 miles and 2 furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Wells Bridge No 134 | 38 miles and 5¾ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Old Town Bridge No 133 | 39 miles and 2 furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Long Spinney Bridge No 132 | 39 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Plank Footbridge No 131A | 40 miles and ¼ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Griffins Bridge No 131 | 40 miles and 2 furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Site of Field Bridge No 130 | 40 miles and 6 furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Ladder Bridge No 129 | 41 miles and ½ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Willisons Bridge No 128 | 41 miles and 3 furlongs | 29 locks | |
| HS2 Construction Bridge Currently used for constructing HS2 this will be the new rail bridge here. |
41 miles and 3½ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Stoneton Bridge No 127 | 41 miles and 6½ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Stoneton Bridge No 126 | 42 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Stoneton Bridge No 125 | 43 miles and 2 furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Spurfoot Bridge No 124 | 43 miles and 4½ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Priors Hardwick Bridge No 123 Priors Hardwick 1 mile southeast |
44 miles and ¼ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Bridge No 122 (Oxford Canal) | 44 miles and 3¾ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Welsh Road Narrows | 45 miles and 1¼ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Marston Doles Visitor Moorings | 45 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Marston Doles Water Point | 45 miles and 3¾ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Marston Doles Top Lock Winding Hole | 45 miles and 3¾ furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Marston Doles Top Lock No 16 | 45 miles and 4 furlongs | 29 locks | |
| Marston Doles Bridge No 119 | 45 miles and 4 furlongs | 30 locks | |
| Marston Doles Bottom Lock No 15 | 45 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 30 locks | |
| Engine House Field Bridge No 118 | 45 miles and 7½ furlongs | 31 locks | |
| Old Engine House Arm Junction | 46 miles and 2¾ furlongs | 31 locks | |
| Greens Lock No 14 | 46 miles and 3¾ furlongs | 31 locks | |
| Greens Lock Field Bridge No 116 | 46 miles and 4½ furlongs | 32 locks | |
| Napton Lock No 13 | 46 miles and 6¾ furlongs | 32 locks | |
| Napton Lock No 12 | 46 miles and 7½ furlongs | 33 locks | |
| Shut Bridge No 115 | 46 miles and 7½ furlongs | 34 locks | |
| Napton Lock No 11 | 47 miles and ¾ furlongs | 34 locks | |
| Napton Lock No 10 | 47 miles and 1¾ furlongs | 35 locks | |
| Gilkes Bridge No 114 | 47 miles and 2 furlongs | 36 locks | |
| Napton Lock No 9 | 47 miles and 2¼ furlongs | 36 locks | |
| Napton Bottom Lock No 8 | 47 miles and 3¼ furlongs | 37 locks | |
| Napton Sanitary Station | 47 miles and 3½ furlongs | 38 locks | |
| Folly Bridge No 113 | 47 miles and 3¾ furlongs | 38 locks | |
| The Folly PH Canalside |
47 miles and 3¾ furlongs | 38 locks | |
| Water Point at Bottom of Napton Locks | 47 miles and 3¾ furlongs | 38 locks | |
| Napton Winding Hole | 47 miles and 5½ furlongs | 38 locks | |
| Napton Brickyard Bridge No 112 | 48 miles and 1¾ furlongs | 38 locks | |
| Napton Bridge No 111 | 48 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 38 locks | |
| The Bridge PH (Napton) Closed May 2016 |
48 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 38 locks | |
| Bridge Inn Winding Hole | 48 miles and 5¼ furlongs | 38 locks | |
| Napton Bridge No 110 | 49 miles and ½ furlongs | 38 locks | |
| Coventry Road Bridge No 109 | 49 miles and 1¼ furlongs | 38 locks | |
| Napton Marina | 49 miles and 2½ furlongs | 38 locks | |
| Napton Junction Junction of Grand Union and Oxford Canals |
49 miles and 4 furlongs | 38 locks |
- Oxford Canal Walk - Part One - Oxford to Thrupp - YouTube — associated with Oxford Canal
- A walk along the Oxford Canal (Southern Section) from Oxford to Thrupp Wide
- Farm with rare breed pigs — associated with The Pig Place
- free ranging outdoors make the best tasting bacon and sausages.
- Sovereign Wharf Website — associated with Sovereign Wharf
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- Great Western Arms PH — associated with The Great Western Arms PH
- Public House
- Cropredy Marina - Castle Marinas — associated with Cropredy Marina (northern basins)
- Cropredy Marina
- Annie's Tea Room — associated with Annie's Tea Rooms
- Annie's Tea Room - Thrupp
- Boat Inn -Thrupp — associated with The Boat Inn (Thrupp)
- Public House
- The Jolly Boatman PH — associated with The Jolly Boatman PH
- Public House
- Cropredy Marina | 249 berth, off-line, accessible marina, with1st class facilities, situated on the southern Oxford Canal. — associated with Cropredy Marina (southern basin)
- The Folly at Napton PH — associated with The Folly PH
- Public House
Wikipedia has a page about Oxford Canal
The Oxford Canal is a 78-mile (126 km) narrow canal in central England linking Oxford with Bedworth (between Coventry and Nuneaton on the Coventry Canal) via Banbury and Rugby. Completed in 1790, it connects to the River Thames at Oxford and is integrated with the Grand Union Canal—combined for 5 miles (8 km) close to the villages of Braunston and Napton-on-the-Hill, a canal which soon after construction superseded much of its traffic.
The canal was for about 15 years the main canal artery of trade between the Midlands and London; it retained importance in its local county economies and that of Berkshire. Today the canal is frequently used for weekend and holiday narrowboat pleasure boating.
The Oxford Canal traverses Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and east Warwickshire through broad, shallow valleys and lightly rolling hills; resembling the bulk of the Grand Union Canal and its branches, much of the landscape is similar to the those of the Llangollen and Lancaster canals. It has frequent wharves and public houses, particularly if including the parts of the Grand Union Canal immediately adjoining. North of about a third of its distance, namely from Napton, the canal's route northeast and then northwest forms part of the Warwickshire ring. At its southern extremity it forms a waterway circuit within Oxford known as the Four Rivers.
