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Summer Newsletter 2024
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...
Walking the Sarsen Way Guide Book
by Steve Davison. Guidebook to the Sarsen Way (79km) from Coate Water Park to Salisbury and the Cranborne Droves Way (28km) connecting Salisbury to Wessex Ridgeway at Win Green. These long-distance paths are part of the Great Chalk Way. Suggested 2-8 day itineraries,...
Spring Newsletter 2024
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...
View The Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize Exhibition 2024
The Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize 2024 exhibition can now be viewed on this website
Winter Newsletter 2024
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...
Autumn Newsletter 2023
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...
Summer Newsletter 2023
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...
Review of the book “The Bridleway – How Horses Shaped the British Landscape”
One of our Committee Member’s Jane Imbush has written a review of this book – click the News and Events webpage to read her review.
Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize Theme for the 2024 Competition
The theme for the Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize Exhibition 2024 competition can be found on the Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize page here: Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize 2024 Webpage
Spring Newsletter 2023
In our spring newsletter we start with the 7th annual Swire Ridgeway Arts Prize Exhibition which was a great success – great art exemplified by record sales and attendances. We look at the winners – and the visitors. The Ridgeway is a challenge in another respect:...