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The Ridgeway
The Ridgeway
is a
ridgeway
or
ancient trackway
described as Britain's oldest road. The section clearly identified as an ancient trackway extends from
Wiltshire
along the
chalk
ridge of the
Berkshire Downs
to the
River Thames
at the
Goring Gap
, part of the
Icknield Way
which ran, not always on the ridge, from
Salisbury Plain
to
East Anglia
. The route was adapted and extended as a
National Trail
, created in 1972. The
Ridgeway National Trail
follows the ancient Ridgeway from
Overton Hill
, near
Avebury
, to
Streatley
, then follows footpaths and parts of the ancient Icknield Way through the
Chiltern Hills
to
Ivinghoe Beacon
in Buckinghamshire. The National Trail is long.
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