This guidebook
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Includes:: both a guide to the route & a separate OS map booklet
- describes the Ridgeway National Trail, an 87 mile (139km) route through southern England from Avebury in Wiltshire to Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire. Typically walked in 6 or 8 days, this is a low-level waymarked route suitable for all abilities & for year round walking. The guidebook details the trail in both directions, west to east & east to west. Step-by-step route descriptions are accompanied by 1:100, 000 OS mapping & a separate OS 1:25, 000 map booklet showing the entire route is included. Packed with details on points of interest & a trek planner giving at-a-glance information about facilities, public transport & accommodation available along the way, this book is an indispensable guide to walking this national trail. Following a ridge of chalk hills through the Chiltern Hills AONB & North Wessex Downs AONB, the Ridgeway takes walkers through five counties & five thousand years of history. It offers a scenic & fascinating journey through our ancient & more recent past, visiting the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Avebury`s Neolithic stone circle & the famous Uffington White Horse, &
Includes:: excursions to picturesque villages, thatched cottages & cosy pubs.