Ridgeway National Trail

That’s impressive progress John, do you ever feel tired at the end of the day?

Are you walking the length of the GCW this summer?

📢 WE'RE HIRING! We need an energetic, personable, resourceful person experienced in practical countryside work with volunteers to look after the Ridgeway and Thames Path National Trails. Info: oxfordshire.wm-jobs.co.uk/members/modu...
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The image shows the view from the Ridgeway National Trail over the fields towards Wantage.

A cup of tea with that slice of landscape?
Join Richard Oram in our next Historic Ridgeway online lecture on a journey through The Ridgeway National Trail landscape discovering its archaeology
May 7 2025 19.30 - 20.30 GMT
This event is free register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fcdd3b...

This is the Ridgeway 50 Photo’s young winner Aleksander, with photographer Matt Writtle at the Swire Ridgeway Arts Festival.

This is the Ridgeway 50 Photo’s young winner Aleksander, with photographer Matt Writtle and audience at the Swire Ridgeway Arts Festival.

Congratulations to the first Ridgeway 50 Photo’s young winner Aleksander, with photographer Matt Writtle at the Swire Ridgeway Arts Festival today.
We are hoping to see many more talented young artists be inspired by the landscape along our Ridgeway National Trail.

We love it when a plan comes together! Thank you Lilian from #SharpShotsPhotoClub for enabling us to see the Ridgeway National Trail through the eyes of youngsters representing local schools along the Trail.
#SwireArts #RidgewayPhotography

Will do thank you. Congratulations on completing the Trail, where to next?

Congratulations, what was your highlight?

Tom has almost completed his Ridgeway National Trail walk, with the final section to Ivinghoe Beacon. Looking forward to seeing your photos!

Survey of people's experiences completing the Ridgeway National Trail Your feedback helps us understand how to manage The Ridgeway National Trail to benefit as many people as possible. As a thank you for your time and feedback, you will be invited to join The Ridgeway H...

letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/ridgeway

Survey of people's experiences completing the Ridgeway National Trail Your feedback helps us understand how to manage The Ridgeway National Trail to benefit as many people as possible. As a thank you for your time and feedback, you will be invited to join The Ridgeway H...

letstalk.oxfordshire.gov.uk/ridgeway

You may bump into @123tomc.bsky.social who is also finishing today.

Well done, you’re almost at Ivinghoe Beacon. Which means you qualify for our Ridgeway Hall of Fame! Can you please complete a short online survey that will help us understand users’ experiences, and send a photo of you on the Trail to the email address. Link follows.

You’ve been going well, you’re almost at Ivinghoe Beacon. Which means you qualify for our Ridgeway Hall of Fame! Can you please complete a short online survey that will help us understand users’ experiences, and send a photo of you on the Trail to the email address. Link follows.

Take the planning worry from your next Ridgeway excursion and use the impressive list of services, transport, water taps, accommodation, car parking, bike storage & veterinary services too.
Use the interactive map here: 🗺
www.nationaltrail.co.uk/en_GB/trails...

Princes Risborough to Wendover on The Ridgeway,a fine spring day in Buckinghamshire.
April 25
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The image shows two ewes with their lambs alongside the Ridgeway National Trail.

Plenty of activity out on the Trail today: huge bumblebees, butterflies, a patch of very early bluebells, a horse in a smart new coat and so many lambs. Please keep your dogs on a lead and under control when passing through their nursery fields.
Thank you!

What’s to spot along the Trail in March? Majestic trees awaking from their winter slumber, bouncing lambs, colourful cottages and tiny path-side flowers.
#RidgewayNationalTrail

The image shows a typical Dartmoor landscape with evidence of archeology.

The Historic Ridgeway online lecture series continues March 26th 19.00 - 20.00 GMT with archaeologist Andy Crabb
Andy will be describing his work on the Adopt a Monument Scheme aimed at groups & individuals interested in protecting local heritage.
Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8eed5f...

The image shows two walkers on Whiteleaf Hill above Princes Risborough looking at the view with a Ridgeway National Trail sign in the foreground.

“Is that Ivinghoe Beacon over there?”
There are lots of expedition preparations on the Trail today: Yorkshire 3 Peaks, the Camino, Mount Kilimanjaro & St James’ Way.
We always give walkers’ information about what’s around them, those Chiltern Hills can be confusing: “That’s Bledlow, above Chinnor.”

The image shows an RAF Sergeant holding an Iron Age bridle that was found during Operation Nightingale.

Broken Pots Mending Lives is the next online lecture March 13 2025 7 - 8pm GMT with author & archaeologist Richard Osgood. Hear the inspirational story of how archeology is used in the rehabilitation of military veterans
This online event is free, register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fe4407...

The poster showing muddy boots for the Broken Pots mending lives lecture series with Richard Osgood.

Broken Pots Mending Lives: the Archaeology of Operation Nightingale is the third in our Historic Ridgeway lecture series. Join us tomorrow March 5th 19.00 - 20.00 GMT to hear from archaeologist Richard Osgood.

It’s free and you can register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/8c5c40...

Phew, that’s a long way!

The image shows an old map of West Hendred

Join local landscape archaeologist Dan on a virtual walk through the history of the Ridgeway parish of West Hendred on the northern face of the Berkshire Downs, east of Wantage in Oxfordshire.

This is the second of our new Historic Ridgeway lecture series.

Book your free place shorturl.at/QKj4s

Yes, we’ll post and share the link.

The view looking across the fields towards Ivinghoe Beacon in the Chilterns National Landscape.

The Historic Ridgeway Project invites you to a fascinating online lecture from Dr Wendy Morrison Chilterns National Landscape Archaeologist this Thursday 30th Jan 2025 19.00 - 20.00 GMT
Details & register:
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/fbbe37...
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Named after their hair-like appearance, hoar frost looked so delicate in the intense cold today along the Trail.

The word ‘hoar’ comes from old English and refers to the old age appearance of the frost: the way the ice crystals form makes it look like white hair or a beard.

The Ridgeway: Hike the 5,000-year-old pathway that's Britain's oldest road Walk in the footsteps of Celtic druids, Saxon kings and Victorian poets on an 87-mile prehistoric trackway that cuts across the chalk hills of southern England.

Slowcomotion celebrates slow, self-propelled travel and invites you to get outside and reconnect with the world in a sustainable way.
Brendan Sainsbury walked in the footsteps of Celtic druids, Saxon kings & Victorian poets on our prehistoric trackway across the chalk hills of southern England.

Looking towards Bledlow and a Chilterns landscape of undulating, or rolling hills and the Ridge Way the Trail traverses.

Coombe Hill with its distinctive monument and Wendover Woods in the distance.

A group begins the steep ascent along Bacombe Hole nearing Ivinghoe Beacon.

The wide track though farmland and Pitstone Hill.

Each section of the Trail offers new natural wonders to enjoy: the Ridgeway itself as it traverses the rolling Chiltern Hills and local landmarks mark out distinctive places.

#NationalTrails #UKHiking #SlowTravel #TheRidgeway

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