The Greater Ridgeway - A Walker's Guidebook - Southern England

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Introduction
Contents
Sample Route
Availability
Available as eBook
Cover
Paperback - PVC
Published
1 Mar 2003
Edition
First
ISBN
9781852843465
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ISBN (10)
1852843462
Size
17.2 x 11.6 x 1.5cm
Weight
350g
Pages
256
No. Maps
74
No. Photos
80
Originally Published
1 Mar 2003

The Greater Ridgeway

A walk along the ancient route from Lyme Regis to Hunstanton by Ray Quinlan

A detailed guidebook to walking the entire Greater Ridgeway across southern England from Lyme Regis, on the south coast, to Hunstanton, on the Norfolk coast, combining the shorter Icknield Way with the Wessex ridgeways and the Peddars Way - a total of over 580km (360 miles). More...

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Seasons

Any time of the year, but probably a more pleasant walk through spring and summer.

Centres

Lyme Regis, Shaftesbury, Warminster, Marlborough, Swindon, Reading, Goring, Berkhampstead, Luton, Read More... Cambridge, Thetford, Hunstanton

Difficulty

A long, long walk, but the difficulties are largely due to the challenge of the length rather than Read More... the difficulties of the route.

Must See

White horses, stone circles, evidence of England’s earliest dwellers along some of their ancient Read More... tracks and trails.
 
 

Running for 583 km (363 miles), the full Ridgeway, archaeologists tell us, was walked when the stone circle at Avebury was just a glint in its builder's eye. Neolithic tradesmen, pilgrims and invading armies of five millennia have used this route, which is now fully accessible to walkers and ramblers.

The Greater Ridgeeway route incorporates four established long-distance paths:

  • The Wessex Ridgeway (Lyme Regis to Overton)
  • The Ridgeway National Trail (Overton to Ivinghoe)
  • The Icknield Way (Ivinghoe to Thetford)
  • The Peddars Way (Knettishall to Hunstanton).

It is a walk of incredible variation: from the flat open plateau of the Salisbury Plain to the undulating Dorset hills; from airy ridges above Wantage to the big sky country around Thetford; from small, intimate villages of the shires to the pleasant northern fringes of Luton.

This complete guide to walking the entire Ridgeway includes full route and accommodation details, and is thoroughly illustrated with 60 maps and many photographs.




 
 
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