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Great Stones Way Feature in Adventure Travel Magazine
Steve Davison, author of the recently published Cicerone Guide to The Great Stones Way leads the way along this brand new route meandering through the rolling Wiltshire Downs. Click on the image below to read the entire article, published in the September 2014 issue...
Ridgeway Trail Partnership Update
We are pleased to form part of the group now charged with taking forward new arrangements for management and enhancement of The Ridgeway National Trail. A re-organised Oxfordshire Countryside department will continue to look after the Trail and volunteer scheme...
Richard Jefferies Society Birthday Lecture – 25th October
Saturday 25 October 2014 - 2.30-4.40pm Subject: The Presence of the Past: Richard Jefferies, the Middle Ridgeway and landscape change Speaker: Prof. Patrick Dillon Venue: Liddington Village Hall, Church Road, Liddington, Near Swindon SN4 0HB Admittance: Free...
The Great Stones Way Cicerone Guide published 15th July
The Great Stones Way Avebury, Stonehenge and Salisbury by Steve Davison First guide to a new 36-mile trail through the Downs from Barbury Castle (near Swindon) to Old Sarum (near Salisbury). The official Way can be extended to start from Swindon, with detours to visit...
Circular Walks on The Ridgeway
There are a series of circular walks available from the National Trails website: https://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/ridgeway/additional-walks A small selection of the circular walks included are shown below (links open up PDF files on the National Trails website) Devil's...
Ridgeway Trail Partnership
We attended a Final Stakeholder workshop in the Morrell Rooms, Streatley, on Monday, 2nd June, run by the Ridgeway Review Steering Group for members and other stakeholders, as an opportunity for the Review consultants to report on their interviews and findings to...
New Management Structure for The Ridgeway
The Ridgeway Trail Partnership: The Friends of the Ridgeway AGM started with an initial open session on the current talks on a new management structure for the National Trails and for The Ridgeway. Chairman Ian Ritchie gave us a short briefing on the...
The Ridgeway Day: 10th May
At 10.00 am on Saturday, 10th May, the Dining Hall at The Court Hill Centre was a hive of activity. Despite the ferocious weather forecast, it was sunny, breezy and bracing outside, but inside there was a hubbub of tables being moved around, chairs stacked, and...
The Ridgeway Trail Partnership
A new structure for management of The Ridgeway National Trail is at last beginning to emerge. It has been decided that The Ridgeway and the Thames Path, currently run by a single committee of all the local authorities concerned, will in future be managed...
Spring on The Ridgeway
Well, what a wash-out of a winter we had to put up with! Almost 18 inches of rainfall over the three months, three times as much as in a “normal” year! It is still boggy underfoot in the woodlands, and so many of the valley bottoms, but at least the...