Today we crossed the River Thames from Streatley to Goring.  The river here looks much different than a few miles downstream at London.

Today was about a 16 mile hike in good weather.  It had a few more steep uphills than yesterday’s 10 mile hike, but nothing to complain about.  We left at 8:45 and arrived at three.

Saw this along the way.  There was no information, but I think I have it figured out.  This is an iron age hay fort.  Local tribes lived on top of it and when attacked, threw rocks down on the attackers.  When they ran out of rocks, they had to spit.  This type of fort went out of style right about the time of the invention of fire.

This is the memorial to Lord Wantage.

This is your standard scenery shot except in the distance in the middle you can just make out some iron age cooling towers.

This day was pretty much the same as yesterday for scenery.  Now that we’ve crossed the Thames we will have a different type of hike wandering through small towns.

We did see a mural painted in the walking tunnel under an expressway and the Streatley lending library.

 

From Wikipedia

Goring-on-Thames (or Goring) is a relatively large village and civil parish on the River Thames in South Oxfordshire, England, about 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south of Wallingford and 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Reading.

The place-name ‘Goring’ is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as Garinges. It appears as Garingies in a charter formerly held in the British Museum. The name means ‘Gara’s people’.[2]

Goring has a railway station, which is on the main line between Oxford and London. Most of the land in the civil parish is farmland, with woodland on the Goring Gap outcrop of the Chiltern Hills. Its riverside plain is made up of the residential area of the village including its high street, which has a few shops, public houses and restaurants. Neighbouring this street are the village’s churches. One of these, dedicated to St Thomas Becket, has a nave that was built in the 50 years after his death in the early 13th century, and a later bell tower. The village faces Streatley, which has a lower population and a large riverside hotel, across the Thames. The two villages are connected by Goring and Streatley Bridge.