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In the July newsletter we are seeking to recruit a new trustee to join the board and contribute to delivery of the objectives of the Friends of the Ridgeway. We are also calling on artists to create new artworks for next year’s Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize, the theme of...

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...

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...

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...