The Ridgeway

• The Ridgeway is a 5,000 year old Bronze Age chalk road that connects Bronze Age hillforts positioned along the Berkshire Downs.
• It is one of four pathways that combine to make the Greater Ridgeway that runs from Lyme Regis in Dorset to Hunstanton on the Wash in the North Sea.

The Route

• The Ridgeway and Hillforts (from west to east)
  • Avebury
  • Barbury Castle
  • Liddington Castle
  • Uffington Castle
  • Uffington White Horse
  • Segsbury Camp
  • The River Thames
  • Pulpit Hill
  • Ivinghoe Beacon Tring

The Icknield Way

• This ancient east-west trackway possibly ran from Exeter to Hunstanton and consisted of:
  • The Wessex Ridgeway
  • The Ridgeway
  • Icknield Way Path
  • Peddars Way

The Four Highways of Medieval England

• The Four Highways of Medieval England documented from 1130 CE onwards are:
  • The Icknield Way
  • Ermine Street
  • Fosse Way
  • Watling Street

Uffington Castle, White Horse & Dragon Hill, Berkshire Downs