# 🥾 Walk 305 - Hambleden and Henley-on-Thames

Eighteen of us (plus a dog called Alfie) met up on Sunday 5th November at the car park behind The Stag & Huntsman in Hambleden for a ten-mile walk. As it was Guy Fawkes day, our leader (Mike Dean) had devised a set of quiz questions for us to answer during the walk. At each stop along the walk, he would ask a Guy Fawkes related question after giving us the answer to the previous question.

After the first question, we set off from Hambleden, following a footpath through open fields down to Mill End. Here we crossed the Thames on the metal walkway over the weir at Hambleden Lock, then we made our way to The Flower Pot at Aston.

![Heading down to Mill End, with Hambleden village behind us.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume22/images/hambleden_village.jpg)

We didn't stop for a drink - it was too early - so we stopped for another quiz question before joining the Chiltern Way, heading east toward Remenham and then into Henley-on-Thames. Another stop for a quiz question was made before crossing the river into Henley. We walked through the town and out the other side, now following the Oxfordshire Way and heading uphill to the deer park at Fair Mile.

At the top of the hill we stopped to have lunch. There was a large, fallen oak tree, which provided seating while we ate our sandwiches and pondered over yet another quiz question. The sky darkened ominously as we set off after lunch, but it came to nothing and the blue skies returned for the rest of the walk.

![Crossing the Thames at Hambleden Lock.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume22/images/hambleden_lock.jpg)

Leaving the Oxfordshire Way, we followed quiet lanes through Fawley before joining Shakespeare's Way, which we followed through Great Wood and into Hambleden again. See our route on Google Maps. After changing out of our muddy boots and returning our rucksacks to the cars, most of us popped into The Stag & Huntsman for a drink and chat before going home.

Mike's questions: "In what year was the Gunpowder Plot? Who was the leader of the plotters? Which King survived the attempt on his life? How many barrels of gunpowder were discovered in the cellars of Westminster? Where was Guy Fawkes born? The art of making and using fireworks is known as what?"

![Heading back to Hambleden through Great Wood.](https://www.berksww.org.uk/scrapbooks/volume22/images/hambleden_great_wood.jpg)

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