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Explore 4: Confluence
It took me a while to notice that Bicester lacks a major river. Of course it didn’t help that for the first few years I lived here, the mighty River Bure was culverted and canalised in a concrete ditch for much of its journey through Bicester town centre. It is not an imposing water course…
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Explore 1: The Bicester Triangle
I wanted to walk the same route as a person could 110 years ago, but to stand where it was impossible for them to stand. Which is how I found myself in the Bicester Triangle. Let me explain. If I were 1914 me, following the OS map (on paper not an app), I would find…
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Is Bicester boring?
Is Bicester boring? There was an article in the Guardian some years back that described Bicester as ‘a humdrum town on the less-lovely side of Oxfordshire’. In some ways I think this is unfair…. but it’s also not exactly incorrect.