Category: The Ridgeway
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HIKING THE RIDGEWAY – day 6 of 6
WENDOVER TO IVINGHOE BEACON 6th July 2023 Wendover is a very attractive small town with all the facilities you might need on a hike. I got off the train from Aylesbury and continued where I left off by walking along the High Street, which today had a market. Before leaving, I ate a full…
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HIKING THE RIDGEWAY – day 5 of 6
WATLINGTON TO WENDOVER 5th July 2023 I didn’t sleep as well as I expected. When I had woken up at about 1.45am and gone out to the toilet, the rain had stopped and some stars were visible in the sky. It took me a while to get back to sleep, and the last thing…
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HIKING THE RIDGEWAY – day 4 of 6
GORING TO WATLINGTON 4th July 2023 Hiking the Ridgeway is a game of two halves. The Chiltern Hills in the eastern half are very different from the open grasslands west of the Goring Gap – more wooded and with more facilities, but with fewer ancient monuments and less of a ‘wild’ feel. The…
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HIKING THE RIDGEWAY – day 3 of 6
COURT HILL TO GORING 3rd July 2023 There was no cooked breakfast available at Court Hill hostel in the morning, but the manager had kindly left me a few things to eat – cereal and milk, bread for toast, apples, bananas and tea bags. Today’s walk passed through Oxfordshire and Berkshire, before crossing…
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HIKING THE RIDGEWAY – day 2 of 6
LIDDINGTON HILLFORT TO COURT HILL 2nd July 2023 I got up at 6am to a completely dry tent, thanks to a good breeze blowing up all night from the valley below. The town of Swindon looked a lot better from up here than it did the day before when I got off the train…
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HIKING THE RIDGEWAY – day 1 of 6
INTRODUCTION The Ridgeway is said to be Britain’s oldest road. In use for at least 5000 years, it forms part of an ancient trading route from Wales and the English West Country to East Anglia. These trackways developed naturally as ancient travellers made their way across the drier, higher ground. Initially a series of…
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