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Re: Ridgeway National Trail
Jan 19, 2013, 22:07
Harryshill wrote:
Sanctuary wrote:
Harryshill wrote:
Evergreen Dazed wrote:
Harryshill wrote:
Fair enough.

I was thinking of the whole of the Ridgeway route.


Yes, just thought it might confuse as most info online etc on the 'ridgeway' won't mention it!
But yeah, would be incredible to walk from Dorset up to Wash.


Your right. I hadn't thought about it.

I have always seen Avebury as being on it's route not the destination.


Well that is correct it's just that only the stretch between the Sanctuary and Ivanhoe Beacon has been 'Nationalised'.


My understanding is that the Ridgeway route starts in the Wash and runs to Dorset, taking in Avebury, Marden and Stonehenge.

Makes a lot of sense to me. A major route attracting 'Attractions' on it's way.


I researched this about two years ago. It stretched from the mouth of the River Axe in Dorset to the Wash as you say. It joined with the Icknield Way, Peddars Way (another National Trail) and the Wessex Ridgeway. From the River Axe the track moved northwards to Salisbury Plain and Stonehenge, then to the Neolithic camp at Knap Hill, across the Wansdyke to Overton Hill etc. At the top end it went to the flint mines at Grimes Graves before reaching the North Sea via Peddars Way.
Great trip 250 miles altogether.
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