One of fifteen long-distance National Trails in England and Wales, the Ridgeway travels for northeast from Overton Hill within the Avebury World Heritage Site to Ivinghoe Beacon near Tring, where it meets the Icknield Way Path.

The Ridgeway meets the more recent ( 1997 ) Thames Path National Trail at the Goring Gap, where both trails use opposite banks of the River Thames between Goring-on-Thames and Mongewell ; the Thames Path following the western bank and the Ridgeway the eastern.

Places that are near to ( or on ) The Ridgeway National Trail include ( from west to east ):

Between The Ridgeway and Folly Brook are the National Institute for Medical Research, Burtonhole Farm, a garden centre called Finchley Nurseries, and several sports grounds.

The National Institute for Medical Research is a large medical research facility situated on the Ridgeway.

* Wessex Ridgeway, from Lyme Regis to Marlborough, which combined with The Ridgeway National Trail, the Icknield Way and the Peddars Way National Trail forms the Greater Ridgeway,, from Lyme Regis to Hunstanton on The Wash

* Valencia ( Ridgeway, South Carolina ), listed on the U. S. National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, South Carolina

The first section to be officially designated as a Long-Distance Footpath ( as National Trails were then known ) was that from Overton Hill to Ivinghoe Beacon, and it was declared open as the Ridgeway in 1973.

The author Ray Quinlan has combined most of the Wessex Ridgeway, the Ridgeway National Trail, the Icknield Way Path, the Peddars Way, and a small part of the Norfolk Coast Path to form a path that he calls the Greater Ridgeway, with a length of approximately 584 km ( 363 miles ) from Lyme Regis to Hunstanton.

Because parts of the Ridgeway National Trail and the Icknield Way Path are only usable as a footpath, an Icknield Way Path Riders Route or Icknield Way Trail has been created for horseriders and cyclists.

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

The hill is crossed by the Ridgeway National Trail.

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 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.

Apart from the Ridgeway Trail there are 33 miles of public rights of way and bridleways criss-crossing the parish.

Image: Ridgeway National Trail signpost. JPG | Special signage on the The Ridgeway which is a National Trail

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

* The Ridgeway, an ancient track in southern England, which now forms part of the Ridgeway Path or National Trail

It is the starting point of the Icknield Way Path and the Ridgeway long distance path, which follows the line of the Chilterns for many miles to the west, where they merge with the Wiltshire downs and southern Cotswolds.

The Ridgeway is a ridgeway or ancient trackway described as Britain's oldest road.

The Ridgeway passes near many Neolithic, Iron Age, and Bronze Age sites including Avebury Circle, a stone circle similar to Stonehenge ; Barbury Castle, Liddington Castle, Uffington Castle, Segsbury Castle, Pulpit Hill and Ivinghoe Beacon Hill, all Iron Age and Bronze Age hill forts ; Wayland's Smithy, a Neolithic chieftain burial tomb ; the Uffington White Horse, an ancient chalk horse carved into the hillside near Uffington Castle ; and Grim's Ditch, a section of earthwork near Mongewell created by Iron Age peoples as a possible demarcation line.

There are over of footpaths in the Chilterns which are also transected by ancient long-distance trackways including the Icknield Way and The Ridgeway.

The ancient trackway of the Kerry Ridgeway, a prehistoric Bronze Age route, runs from the town.

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

Wroughton is close to The Ridgeway, a national path which is connected to the ancient Uffington White Horse.

The ancient track called the Ridgeway crosses the low land to the east of the parish, running parallel with the River Rhee, which forms the north-east boundary.

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

Just to the south of the hill fort, the ancient trackway thought to be Britain's oldest road, called the Ridgeway, passes through the parish.

It is crossed by The Ridgeway and other ancient routes used by the Romans.

Historically, Heathfield lay on an ancient trackway ( The Ridgeway ), connecting the South Downs with the Weald.

Ivinghoe Beacon ( the eastern trailhead ) seen looking north from The Ridgeway

Path down from the Ridgeway to Bishopstone, Wiltshire

In medieval times and later, the Ridgeway found use by drovers, moving their livestock from the West Country and Wales to markets in the Home Counties and London.

The Ridgeway represents one of four long-distance footpaths that combine to run from Lyme Regis to Hunstanton, collectively referred to as the Greater Ridgeway.

The distinctive black Ridgeway signposts are made from ' Plaswood ', an environmentally friendly and maintenance-free plastic material made from Recycling | recycled waste.

Chingford Old Town Hall, dating from 1929, is on The Ridgeway in Chingford.

It is thought that the name ' Mill Hill ' may be derived from a mill on The Ridgeway, built on an area of open ground ( now a park ) known as The Mill Field.

), East-West highway across the town from the Newfane town line to the Niagara-Orleans County line on into the Town of Ridgeway.

The Town of Carlton was formed from the Towns of Gaines and Ridgeway in 1822 and was then known as the " Town of Oak Orchard.

The Town of Gaines was established in 1816 from a partition of the Town of Ridgeway before Orleans County was established.

Yates was incorporated in 1822 from part of the Town of Ridgeway and was briefly called " Northton.

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.

A historic market town, Dorchester lies on the banks of the River Frome, in the Frome Valley, just south of the Dorset Downs and north of the South Dorset Ridgeway, that separates the area from Weymouth, south.