(S/E) From the front door of the Bell, turn right. At the road junction, go straight on into Church Lane. Follow the road until you reach the church.
Take a footpath over a stile on the right just before the churchyard wall and cross the field to a double stile and bridge. Turn left over a stile a little further on by a gate, and cross a paddock to a second field gate, beyond which turn half-right to a stile in the corner of the next paddock.
(1) Continue in the same direction to a double stile and footbridge in the field corner. Cross to a belt of trees, within which is a double footbridge and two stiles. Walk uphill across the field to a stile in the hedge, then cross the next field heading in the approximate direction of Hampton Gay church.
(2) After a stile by an old ash tree, follow the field edge ahead then, when the field boundary bends left, keep straight on across the field, past an overgrown pond, towards the ruined Manor House. Turn left to visit the church, returning the same way.
With the manor ruins now on your left, walk up to a metal kissing gate at the end of the lane at Manor Farm. Walk between the farm buildings and follow the tarmac lane beyond as it bends to the right, ignoring a footpath to Bletchingdon on the left.
(3) At a left-hand bend, turn right onto a footpath across the field, signposted “Hampton Poyle 1⁄2”. Cross to a stile and gate, and turn left along the field edge. Beyond a footbridge and double stile in the corner of the field, continue along the field edge to a further footbridge over a ditch.
(4) Walk diagonally across the next field to a stile in the far left-hand corner, with a belt of woodland on your left. Follow the wooden paddock fence and pass through a gap, then bear right to a stile in the direction of the church. Cross a stile in the left-hand hedge then bear right over a double-stile to return to the road. Turn left and retrace your steps along Church Lane to the Bell. (S/E)