Nick Hill

The Ridgeway

Two-way guide: Avebury to Ivinghoe Beacon to Avebury

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Produktbeschreibung

All the information you need to enjoy your hiking adventure along The Ridgeway is in this fully revised and updated 6th edition.

Produktdetails

• Trailblazer Guides
• Verlag: Trailblazer Publications
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 37250
• 6 New edition
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 176mm x 116mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 224g
• ISBN-13: 9781912716524
• ISBN-10: 1912716526
• Artikelnr.: 72610959

Autorenporträt

Nick Hill lives in Devizes, close to the Ridgeway. As well as writing walking guides he’s Traiblazer’s cartographer and has drawn many of the maps published in our guides.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION About the Ridgeway History 10 - How difficult is the Ridgeway?
12 - How long do you need? 13 - When to go 14 PART 1: PLANNING YOUR WALK
Practical information for the walker Route finding 17 Accommodation 18 Food
and drink 21 Money 24 - Information for foreign visitors 24 Walking
companies and luggage transfer 26 Disabled access 27 Mountain-biking 28
Horse riders 28 Motor vehicles 28 Walking with a dog 29 Budgeting 29
Itineraries Which direction? 30 Suggested itineraries 31 The best day &
two-day walks 31 Town & village facilities table 33 (eastbound) &35
(westbound) Side trips 36 What to take Keep your luggage light 38 How to
carry it 38 Footwear 38 Clothes 39 Toiletries 40 First-aid kit 40 General
items 40 Camping gear 41 Money 41 Maps 41 Recommended reading 43 Sources of
further information 43 Getting to and from the Ridgeway Getting to Britain
44 National transport 45 Public transport map 48 Local bus services 50
Local transport 51 PART 2: MINIMUM IMPACT WALKING & OUTDOOR SAFETY Minimum
impact walking Economic impact 53 Environmental impact 53 Access 56
Countryside code 56 Outdoor safety Avoidance of hazards 58 Weather
forecasts 59 Health 59 PART 3: THE ENVIRONMENT & NATURE Conservation of the
Ridgeway Natural England 61 Ridgeway Partnership 62 Campaigning &
conservation organisations 63 Flora and fauna Flowers 64 Butterflies 65
Trees 66 Mammals 67 Birds 69 PART 4: MARLBOROUGH TO AVEBURY Marlborough 73
- Marlborough to Avebury walk 77 Avebury and around Avebury 85 West Overton
87 Avebury stone circle 88 West Kennett & East Kennett 90 A walk around
Avebury 90 Getting to and from Overton Hill 93 PART 5: ROUTE GUIDE AND MAPS
Using this guide 95 Overton Hill to Foxhill 97 (Ogbourne St George
105,Liddington 108) Foxhill to Overton Hill 111 Foxhill to Court Hill (&
Wantage) 111 (Bishopstone 113 Ashbury 114 - Woolstone 115 - Uffington 119 -
Sparsholt Firs 122 - Sparsholt 122 - Letcombe Regis 123) (Wantage &) Court
Hill to Foxhill 125 (Wantage 126) (Wantage &) Court Hill to Goring 129
(East Ilsley 132 Compton 133 - Aldworth 137 - Streatley 139) Goring to
Court Hill (& Wantage) 140 (Goring 141) Goring to Watlington 143 (South
Stoke 144 - North Stoke 146 Wallingford 147 - Crowmarsh Gifford 151 -
Nuffield 157) Watlington to Goring 158 (Watlington 160) Watlington to
Princes Risborough 161 (Lewknor 162 - Aston Rowant 163 - Chinnor 165)
Princes Risborough to Watlington 160 (Princes Risborough 170) Princes
Risborough to Wigginton (& Tring) 173 (Wendover 176) Wigginton (& Tring) to
Princes Risborough 183(Wigginton 184 - Tring 184) (Tring &) Wigginton to
Ivinghoe Beacon 188 (Aldbury 190) Ivinghoe Beacon to Wigginton (& Tring)
194 (Aldbury 190 - Ivinghoe 195 - Pitstone 195) APPENDICES A: Walking with
a dog 196 B: The Greater Ridgeway 198 C: Map key 199 D: GPS waypoints 200
INDEX 203 OVERVIEW MAPS & PROFILES 209