The Ridgeway

The route starts in the World Heritage Site of Avebury and follows a ridge of chalk hills north-east, across the Marlborough Downs and North Wessex Downs and into the Chilterns, to reach Ivinghoe Beacon northwest of London. It keeps to high ground used since prehistoric times by travellers, herdsmen and soldiers, on a line in use for at least 5,000 years, and forms part of a longer set of tracks called the Greater Ridgeway. Much of it is bridleway, open to horse riders and cyclists, though east of Goring the bridleway and footpath diverge frequently.

National Trail since

1973

Length (km)

140

Drawn from

Avebury

Drawn to

Ivinghoe Beacon

OpenStreetMap relation

www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8879

Where the length and date are published

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ridgeway

Category: Hiking & Trails

Tags: england, chalk, bridleway, archaeology, horse riding, cycling

Coordinates: 51.529560697982085, -1.1571963180814933

Part of The National Trails of England and Wales

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