Dog Friendly Walks in Oxfordshire

A perimeter walk around Capability Brown's masterpiece at Blenheim, with lake views and the palace itself as centrepiece.

A Cotswold deer park walk through the ancient Cornbury woodland with the Evenlode River valley as backdrop.

A quiet Cotswold valley walk from the antique town of Burford to the Windrush riverside village of Swinbrook.

A Thames-side walk from the ruined Godstow Nunnery through Port Meadow to the ancient Swinford toll bridge.

Dogs get high off-lead freedom over this National Trust chalk hill on the Chiltern escarpment, with steep open grassland, beechwoods and red kites overhead.

Two distinctive tree-capped hills above the Thames with views that have inspired artists for centuries.

A walk through the University of Oxford's ancient research woodland, with some of the finest mixed woodland in southern England.

This Chiltern escarpment nature reserve gives dogs a short, varied leg-stretch through chalk grassland and beechwood, past sculptures and views of the Oxfordshire plain.

A flat circuit of fields and footpaths for dogs around Farmoor Reservoir, with views across the water to the spires of Oxford.

A gentle Oxford Canal towpath walk past the boatyard hamlet of Thrupp with traditional narrowboats and waterside views.

A north Oxfordshire circular for dogs, linking the King's Men stone circle and two other ancient monuments through rolling farmland and quiet woodland.

An Oxford woodland and heathland park with ancient oaks and a surprising wildness just east of the city.

This flat riverside loop lets dogs walk easily through Wallingford's medieval castle meadows and along the Thames Path, past a castle destroyed by Cromwell.

A badger-marked trail for dogs on a lead through a steep Chiltern valley, the richest site in the region for wild orchids.