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The Ridgeway: Avebury to Ivinghoe Beacon
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Contents list
Contents list | Introduction | About the Ridgeway | Planning your walk | Using this guide | Sample route guide: Foxhill to Court Hill (& Wantage)
INTRODUCTION
PART 1: PLANNING YOUR WALK
About the Ridgeway
History 9 – How difficult is the Ridgeway? 10 – How long do you need? 11
Practical information for the walker
Accommodation 12 – Food and drink 14 – Money 17 – Information for
foreign visitors 18 – Other services 19 – Walking companies and luggage
transfer 20 – Disabled access 20 – Mountain biking 21 – Motor
vehicles 21 – Horse riders 21 – Taking dogs along the Ridgeway 22
Budgeting 22
When to go
Seasons 23 – Temperatures and rainfall 24 – Daylight hours 24
Festivals and events 24
Itineraries
Village and town facilities table 26 – Suggested itineraries 28 – The best
day and two-day walks 29 – Which direction? 30 – Side trips 30
What to take
Keep it light 32 – How to carry it 32 – Footwear 33 – Clothes 33
Toiletries 34 – First-aid kit 34 – General items 34 – Camping gear 35
Money 35 – Maps 35 – Sources of further information 36
Recommended reading 37
Getting to and from the Ridgeway
Getting to Britain 38 – National transport 38 – Local transport 41
Local bus services 42 – Public transport map 44
PART 2: MINIMUM IMPACT AND OUTDOOR SAFETY
Minimum impact walking
Economic impact 46 – Environmental impact 46 – Access 49
Outdoor safety
Avoidance of hazards 51 – Weather forecasts 52 – Health 52
PART 3: THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATURE
Conservation of the Ridgeway
Natural England 54 – Campaigning and conservation organisations 56
Flora and fauna
Mammals 57 – Birds 59 – Butterflies 62 – Trees 62 – Flowers 63
PART 4: ROUTE GUIDE AND MAPS
Using this guide
Trail maps 65
Marlborough
Services 66 – Where to stay 67 – Where to eat and drink 68
Avebury and around
Avebury 71 – Avebury stone circle 72 – West Overton 76 – West
Kennet & East Kennet 76 – A walk around Avebury 78 – Avebury to
Marlborough walk 82
The route guide
Alternative starts to the Ridgeway 86
Overton Hill to Foxhill 88 (Ogbourne St George 96 – Liddington 100)
Foxhill to Court Hill (& Wantage) 101 (Bishopstone 101 – Ashbury 105
Woolstone 106 – Uffington 109 – Down Barn Farm 110 – Sparsholt 112
Letcombe Regis 114 – Wantage 116)
Court Hill to Goring 119 (East Ilsley 125 – Compton 126
Aldworth 128 – Streatley 130 – Goring 132)
Goring to Watlington 133 (South Stoke 134 – North Stoke 138
Wallingford 139 – Crowmarsh Gifford 142 – Nuffield 146
Watlington 150)
Watlington to Princes Risborough 151 (Lewknor 152 – Kingston
Blount 152 – Chinnor 156 – Princes Risborough 161)
Princes Risborough to Wigginton (& Tring) 163 (Wendover 165
Wigginton 172 – Tring 174)
Wigginton to Ivinghoe Beacon 177 (Aldbury 178 – Ivinghoe 180)
APPENDICES
Appendix A: Map key 182
Appendix B: The Greater Ridgeway 183
Appendix C: GPS waypoints 184
INDEX 187
The Ridgeway: Avebury to Ivinghoe Beacon
Excerpts:
- Contents list
- Introduction
- About the Ridgeway
- Planning your walk
- Using this guide
- Sample route guide: Foxhill to Court Hill (& Wantage)
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