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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...

There’s a lot in The Friends of the Ridgeway’s (FoR) summer newsletter. Chair of the Ridgeway Partnership, Simon Kearey, introduces the new Ridgeway National Trail Officer, Ian Black. We look at two ways to get along the Ridgeway. Josie Hill provides an inspirational...

In the spring issue of our newsletter, we look at this year’s highly successful Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize Exhibition. Wiltshire MP Danny Kruger recently spoke in the House of Commons in favour of amending the law so as to get more public rights of way protected from...

In the winter 2024 issue of the newsletter we report on the final event, on Ivinghoe Beacon, in the year-long celebration of the official opening of the Ridgeway National Trail 50 years previously. We also look at the person who did so much to deliver this and so much...

In this autumn’s newsletter we look at a lot of the things that have happened or got underway on the Ridgeway National Trail in the last three months. For starters, over 70 people converged on Coombe Hill, Bucks, at the end of September to celebrate the Trail’s 50th...

Horses figure large in our summer newsletter, with an article on carriage driving on the Ridgeway, and a review of the book The Bridleway, how horses shaped the British landscape. Another type of horse, the Uffington - chalk - White Horse, was under scrutiny by...