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...

Pub Walks

We now have a series of pub walks that are on and around the Ridgeway: Pub Walks...

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...