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Audio walk
The Oakham Canal audio walk accompanies listeners on a five-mile round stroll through the town and along the towpaths, as real and imagined characters from the past tell you their stories of how the canal came to be built and who by.
Just play or download the tracks below, play from Spotify or borrow an Oakham Canal MP3 player from Oakham library or Oakham Castle.
Track 1 - Church Street Car Park
00:00 / 04:37
TRACK 2 - Bottom of Kilburn Road
00:00 / 08:10
TRACK 3 - Opposite Oakham Cemetery
00:00 / 03:10
TRACK 4 - Barleythorpe Brook, opposite Suthern Close
00:00 / 08:02
TRACK 5 - Start of Oakham Canal footpath
00:00 / 05:01
TRACK 6 - Canal Milepost, Burley Park Way
00:00 / 11:05
TRACK 7 - Spillway Bridge
00:00 / 06:30
TRACK 8 - Wooden Footbridge
00:00 / 05:43
TRACK 9 - East bank of canal, towards Burley Road
00:00 / 04:19
TRACK 10 - Viewing platform, Burley Road
00:00 / 03:08
TRACK 11 - Bench facing the canal - your choice!
00:00 / 08:37
TRACK 12 - Bench at Kimball Close layby
00:00 / 04:58
TRACK 13 - Start of Western Bank footpath
00:00 / 06:21
TRACK 14 - Footpath, south of Burley Road
00:00 / 07:41
TRACK 15 -Wooden footbridge
00:00 / 14:41
TRACK 16 - Canal path, back towards town
00:00 / 04:47
TRACK 17 - Ashwell Road
00:00 / 04:41
TRACK 18 - The Old Boat Inn
00:00 / 05:17
TRACK 19 - Black Gates, at entrance to Oakham School
00:00 / 03:48
TRACK 20 - Cutts Close Park
00:00 / 06:26
The Audio Guide was funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and developed and produced by Excavate. Find out more about the recording here.
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