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Zariadris wrote: Sanctuary, Evergreen, harestonesdown, scubi63, tjj, Harryshill:
Our heartfelt thanks to all of you for your invaluable insights, recommendations, and links. We appreciate the time you all took to share your wisdom and good wishes.
We're getting very excited about doing this. The idea is to end at Avebury, as we're really seeing this as a kind of pilgrimage there. I was interested to hear you mention a new Great Stones way, so I'll look into that as a possibility too. We'll have to decide exactly where we'll start off, depending on our time. Obviously there is so much we'd like to see up and down Britain but for our purposes we'd rather experience the land by walking it than by driving it, even if it means seeing less in terms of sheer miles and monuments.
I feared as much with regard to April-May being something of a monsoon season, but no worries, we'll bring our wet suits and wellies.
I'm about to tuck into A R Cane's blog on the trail, and I'll be sure to pick up Burton's 'The Ridgeway' and the Ridgeway National Trail Companion as well. Over the weekend I got a copy of Burl's Revised 2nd Ed of Prehistoric Avebury, which is gonna get very dog-eared in my backpack, I can tell you.
Thanks again guys. I might have some more questions going forward, so I hope we'll speak again.
Be well.
Z
Hi Zariadris,
Hope you had a chance to read my blogs on walking the Ridgeway (as pointed out by Scubi - Cheers!). If you want to know anything else about our escapade you are more than welcome to contact me through TMA.
My siblings and I took a leisurely 6 days (3 weekends in May, September and December) to walk it, but it can be done faster if you're fitter! However you might miss some parts if you're travelling too quickly. We were armed with Anthony Burton's 'The Ridgeway' (National Trail Guides) and a host of OS Explorer maps (1:25000). Good idea to take a good camera with a reasonable zoom lens too. Also bare in mind that you'll probably have to add 1-2 miles of walking each day to get to accommodation occasionally if you're staying in pubs, B&Bs or YHAs (really good one at Streatley). You should probably allow at least an extra day at the end to stay in or near Avebury as there are so many good sites to visit there.
Good luck and happy walking!
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