May 2025 Newsletter

Pride of place in the May issue of the Friends of the Ridgeway quarterly newsletter is the 9th annual Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize exhibition, held in Uffington on the last weekend in April. Wendy Tobitt talked to the winners and presents their winning pieces. There was...

February 2025 Newsletter

Our February newsletter commences with the beautiful book ‘Downland’ by artist Anna Dillon and poet Jonathan Davidson. We look at how Scutchamer Knob, an Iron Age round barrow adjacent to the Ridgeway, is currently in receipt of lots of tender loving care from...

Autumn Newsletter 2024

In this issue we celebrate the official opening in October of the Great Chalk Way (GCW), the long and winding sequence of trails, established after the last Ice Age, that follows chalk ridges from the North Sea coast to the English Channel. Tim Lewis, Friends trustee...