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The Ridgeway: The 5k-year-old pathway that's Britain's oldest road
Walk in the footsteps of Celtic druids, Saxon kings and Victorian poets on an 87-mile prehistoric trackway that cuts across the chalk hills of southern England.
The Ridgeway is an ancient path that cuts diagonally across the chalk downs of southern England linking Overton Hill, a site of special archaeological interest in Wiltshire, with the prominent 233m summit of Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire, a mere 33 miles from London. In 1973, the path was designated a National Trail and recently celebrated its 50th anniversary with a special walk and a year-long treasure hunt that highlighted the Ridgeway's top-50 features, from its inspiration to writers such as JRR Tolkien and Thomas Hardy to its appearance in the 2019 Star Wars film The Rise of Skywalker. Nearby in Avebury, where I spent my first night in a comfortable B&B and dined in a supposedly haunted pub, I wandered around a Bronze Age stone circle contemporaneous with Stonehenge and a giant manmade mound called Silbury Hill that's as large as Giza's pyramids and nearly as old.
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