Proof – Isis Bridge loop from Cowley
Proof – Isis Bridge loop from Cowley
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Proof – Isis Bridge loop from Cowley
01:25
22.7km
170m
Cycling
Moderate bike ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: August 22, 2026
Tips
Cycling is not permitted along parts of this route
After 52 m for 108 m
After 3.84 km for 120 m
After 22.0 km for 62 m
Waypoints
Start point
Parking
106 m
Iffley Yew
Highlight • Natural Monument
Intriguingly, Alison Gopnik and Alvy Ray Smith have speculated that the Iffley Yew inspired Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) for one of the surreal scenes in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, where a door appears in the tree after Alice leaves the Mad Tea Party, and which leads her back to the hall. We know that Dodgson took Alice to Iffley and that at the time the tree would have had a child size doorway.
The plausibility of this theory is made stronger by the description in Dodgson's original version "Alice’s Adventures under Ground":
... “However, I’ve got to my right size again: the next thing is, to get into that beautiful garden - how is that to be done, I wonder?” Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a doorway leading right into it. “That’s very curious!” she thought, “but everything’s curious today: I may as well go in.” And in she went.
Tip by
4.41 km
Proof
Highlight • Cafe
Tip by
8.85 km
Bayworth Descent
Highlight (Segment) • Trail
Tip by
19.2 km
Kennington to Oxford cycle route
Highlight (Segment) • Cycleway
Tip by
21.6 km
Isis Bridge
Highlight • Cycleway
Tip by
22.7 km
End point
Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
15.7 km
3.57 km
2.91 km
369 m
154 m
Surfaces
14.6 km
7.53 km
386 m
161 m
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