In April 2001, Ridgeway was elected deputy leader of the Democrats, after Natasha Stott Despoja toppled Meg Lees in a leadership spill.

Ridgeway also stood down as deputy leader and was replaced by Lyn Allison.

Ridgeway did not contest the leadership and stood down as deputy leader as he felt the National Executive's decision not to appoint him as interim leader was a reflection on him in a leadership position.

Ridgeway was expected to be appointed interim leader however, in a surprise decision, the party's National Executive installed Brian Greig as interim leader due to the role Ridgeway played in forcing the resignation of Stott Despoja.

Ridgeway was technically leader between Natasha Stott Despoja's resignation and the appointment of Brian Greig as interim leader.

Former leader Meg Lees had been attempting to oust her successor and, with the assistance of three other senators-deputy leader Aden Ridgeway ( NSW ), Andrew Murray ( WA ) and John Cherry ( Qld ), forced the resignation of leader Natasha Stott Despoja.

* The Missionary Institute ( which was present on the Ridgeway until 2007 )

The original city hall was located in an old TVA dormitory on Ridgeway Drive until 1978, when it was destroyed by a fire.

In 1928 the Franciscan Sisters further expanded the complex by building a new St. Joseph Home of Chicago, a structure that stood until recently at 2650 North Ridgeway.

In 1928 the Franciscan Sisters further expanded the complex by building a new St. Joseph Home of Chicago, a structure that stood until recently at 2650 North Ridgeway.

Aden Ridgeway of the Australian Democrats served as a senator during the 1990s, but No indigenous person was elected to the House of Representatives, until West Australian Liberal Ken Wyatt, in August 2010.

Ridgeway was on the Jets ' practice squad until he was signed to the active roster on November 8.

Virginia began as an Ulster Plantation project, where an English adventurer named John Ridgeway was granted the crown patent in August 1612 to build a new town, situated upon the Great road, approximately mid way between the towns of Kells and Cavan.

Colonel Richard Kirby Ridgeway VC CB ( 18 August 1848 – 11 October 1924 ) was born in Oldcastle, County Meath and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Sir William Ridgeway ( 6 August 1858 – 12 August 1926 ) was a classical scholar and the Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge University.

Since 2002, Shelby and Ridgeway have been seeking ways to merge town functions to conserve funds.

Since 2002, Shelby and Ridgeway have been exploring merging functions for cost-saving and currently have one town court to serve both towns.

It is one of four long distance footpaths which, when combined, run from Lyme Regis to Hunstanton and are referred to as the Greater Ridgeway.

The Queen's Own Rifles first saw combat during the Battle of Ridgeway in 1866, where they retreated in disarray when confronted by a small group of mounted scouts, misinterpreted as a large body of cavalry.

These merged during the 20th century, particularly the latter half, when several large private housing estates were developed including Woodhill Park, Ridgeway and Beagleswood.

Ridgeway became nationally known when he revealed in The New Republic that General Motors had hired private detectives to tail consumer advocate Ralph Nader in an attempt to dig up information that might discredit him ( Nader was behind litigation which challenged the safety of the Chevrolet Corvair ).

" He ruffled the feathers of the civilians by forcing the unkempt and ill-disciplined local militia, most of them the sons of British planters, to show more spit and polish ; he deeply offended the Governor, Sir Joseph West Ridgeway, when he yelled at him to get off the parade ground ; and compounded the process of alienation by declining the social invitations of the British community and consorting instead with the locals.

Matters came to a crisis when a tea-planter informed Ridgeway that he had surprised Sir Hector in a railway carriage with four Sinhalese boys ; further allegations followed from other prominent members of the colonial establishment, with the threat of even more to come, involving up to seventy witnesses.

Bainimarama further alleged that Ridgeway was " almost closing in on " some major perpetrators of the coup when he was ordered to leave.

He had not done so by January 1960 when the Evening Standard reported that Marples Ridgeway had won the tender to build the Hammersmith Flyover and that the Ministry of Transport's engineers had endorsed the London County Council's rejection of a lower tender.

Just north of Ridgeway Avenue, the expressway crosses a small, narrow strip of land that lies within the Rochester city limits, a carryover from when the Erie Canal occupied this tract and entered the city decades before.

The spur route became part of Route 30 on March 1, 1921, when the mainline route was realigned to follow Ridge Road between Ridgeway and Rochester.

But when John O ' Neill returned with the bulk of his force from his victory at Ridgeway, the volunteers – expecting to encounter only scattered bands of defeated Fenians under close pursuit – were unable to resist them.

During the Iron Age, inhabitants took advantage of the high ground by building hill forts along the Ridgeway to help defend the trading route.

* Liddington Castle, above the village of Badbury ( Old English: Baddan byrig ) near Swindon in the Marlborough Downs commanding the east / west transit along The Ridgeway track route thus preventing further expansion by the Saxons in the Thames Valley region and protecting the Avon and Severn valleys.

Mill Hill Village is the oldest known inhabited part of the district, a ribbon development along a medieval route called ' The Ridgeway '.

The village is a ribbon development along The Ridgeway.

There are several religious institutions along the Ridgeway, including:

Near Wantage, the route along the ridge of the Downs is known as The Ridgeway, and the name Icknield Way is applied to a parallel lowland route above the spring-line at the northern edge of the chalk.

The Ridgeway National Trail, an 85-mile route that extends from Avebury to Ivinghoe, passes along Wendover High Street.

It is likely that the Ridgeway from Horsham was used as it is the only dry east west route, but this went south to Handcross then east along High Street ( round the headwaters of Standford Brook ) to Turners Hill and onwards to East Grinstead.

It is one of several such forts found along the ancient Ridgeway route.

More options are available by foot or horseback, including the Ridgeway, which runs east – west along the edge of the downs, and a byway south across the downs to Marlborough.

The Rhymney Valley Ridgeway Walk runs along the top of the Graig, and has some very good walks and mountain biking routes.

* the Ridgeway National Trail, running along chalk hills from Wiltshire to Buckinghamshire,

The Ridgeway in fact probably ran from The Wash along the chalk escarpment across Britain via Avebury to the English Channel across Salisbury Plain, a much longer route than the current national footpath suggests.

The ancient track known as the Ridgeway runs along the Berkshire Downs.

There is an old village pump along the Ridgeway.

Dedicated in 1838, the Zion Chapel is situated along the Ridgeway.

Across the parish run The Ridgeway along the scarp, the railway north of the greensand ridge, and the former turnpike road in between.

Generally the Dorset chalk is too soft to be used as a building stone except along the Ridgeway where faulting and folding produced a particularly hard variety popularly used by the Roman in their mosaics.

The anticline is a result of inversion along the Abbotsbury – Ridgeway Fault, although it has been suggested that it developed by the tightening of an earlier rollover anticline, formed during an earlier extensional phase, due to the soft-linked nature of the faulting.

There are numerous round barrows along the south Dorset Ridgeway, including some well-preserved examples of the different sub-types.

Chequers, the Prime Minister's country residence, is the first property encountered along The Ridgeway path north east from Cadsden.

The original village name was Ridgeway, since it was spread out along the upper edge of the escarpment above the Severn floodplain.

It is marked by the famous Uffington White Horse and The Ridgeway, a prehistoric road, runs along its southern border.

The project was to build a single carriageway road, with crawler lane along part, linking the A354 Manor Roundabout near Radipole to the A354 at the top of the Ridgeway Hill.