Circular Walk from Sugarswell Business Park to Shenington

Start : This walk starts at the Monkey Bean Cafe OX15 6HW. Grid ref. SP 359 439

(S/E) Start the walk by exiting back the main road (Sugarswell Lane), turning right (North) looking for a footpath on the right "Macmillan Way".

(1) This footpath descends down a picturesque valley. Nearly at the bottom via left off "Macmillan Way" basically following the wood on your left.

(2) Then after the end of the wood on your left, carry straight on looking for the footpath that enters the wood facing you. After exiting the wood, walk diagonally to your left (northeast) aiming to follow the field hedge on your right.

(3) When you reach the main road A422 turn right (south-southeast) and walk along the verge to turn to the right at the junction.

(4) Take that turn and after 50 metres take the footpath to the right following waymarks eventually re-joining "Macmillan Way".

(5) At the path junction, turn left. Approaching Alkerton veer to the right cross a stream and climb up the other side of the valley up to the road and into Shenington.

(6) At the green turn right and follow the Rattlecombe Road then Kenhill Road past The Bell pub. Continue eventually reaching a wide pathway, which passes by Shenington Airfield.

(7) Eventually leaving the airfield and seeing the Sugarswell Business Park, the path descends and climbs slightly up aiming for the left edge of the Park. In the park return to the Monkey Bean Cafe. (S/E)

Start : This walk starts at the Monkey Bean Cafe OX15 6HW. Grid ref. SP 359 439.

Parking : Parking in Shenington and start from the waypoint (6).

Facilities : To support this remote cafe please either start or finish with excellent coffee and breakfast baps and cakes to die for.

Terrain : Nothing special is required for this easy walk.

Find more information and join us on our next walk at J & A here.

Plenty of sheep and cows, occasional deer and buzzards.

Edgehill Airfield (Shenington) was opened as RAF Edgehill in October 1941 with No. 21 Operational Training Unit (OTU) being based at the airfield operating Vickers Wellingtons, Miles Martinets and Hawker Hurricanes also No. 12 OTU were based at the airfield as well.^[1]No. 1 Flying Training School RAF also used Edgehill at some point.^[2]

The airfield was also used for the flight testing of the Gloster E28/39 (First jet aircraft) in 1942 after it had made its maiden flights at RAF Cranwell.^[1]

After the war it became a storage depot. After a brief period as a Flying Training School, it finally closed as an RAF station in 1953. It is now a gliding school.