Click on the leaflets below for details of walking routes around The Ridgeway National Trail. We would love to hear about your experience of these walks so we can provide the walks you want - please complete the Ridgeway Circular Walks Feedback form below.
If you're a long distance walker, you might also like to try one or more of the longer routes designed for horse riders and cyclists.
Associated Downloads
- Overview map [Size: 103.94Kb] {#DownloadURL} Shows locations of the circular walks below
- 1. Avebury World Heritage Site Circular Walk[Size: 38.42Kb] {#DownloadURL} A 6.7 miles (10.8km) walk through the fascinating prehistoric landscape of the Avebury World Heritage Site
- 2. Barbury Castle & The Ridgeway[Size: 1.38Mb] {#DownloadURL} A delightful 5mile (8km) circular downland route taking in Barbury Castle Country Park in Wiltshire and The Ridgeway
- 3. Aldbourne Circular Route[Size: 1.54Mb] {#DownloadURL} A choice of either a 12 mile (19 km) or a 5 mile (8 km) circular route through the Wiltshire downlands for walkers, horseriders and cyclists. Highlights include Sugar Hill, Snap and Liddington Castle
- 4. Liddington Castle Circular Walk[Size: 481.59Kb] {#DownloadURL} An 8½ mile (14km) walk through some remarkably remote, undulating and scenic downland a few miles south of Swindon that includes the ancient Iron Age fort of Liddington Castle
- 5. Bishopstone Circular Walk[Size: 483.96Kb] {#DownloadURL} Starting in the delightful village of Bishopstone at the foot of the Downs southeast of Swindon this 4½ mile (7km) walk includes a lovely coombe created long ago by the action of water
- 6. Ashbury Circular Walk[Size: 420.23Kb] {#DownloadURL} A choice of three different length walks in lovely downland Oxfordshire: a main walk of 7¾ miles (12½ km) with an option of a short cut reducing it to 6 miles (9½ km), and a short walk of 2½ miles (4 km)
- 7. White Horse Hill Circular Walk[Size: 566.45Kb] {#DownloadURL} A wonderful 4¼ mile (7km) walk in classic downland taking in White Horse Hill and the village of Woolstone
- 8. Devil's Punchbowl & Segsbury Camp Circular Walk[Size: 376.12Kb] {#DownloadURL} A dramatic 7½ (12km) walk through an area of unimproved chalk grassland to the two Letcombes with a return via Segsbury Camp and a lovely stretch of The Ridgeway
- 9. East & West Ilsley Circular Route[Size: 263.37Kb] {#DownloadURL} A 7 mile (11km) walk or ride mostly on downland tracks that visits the two Ilsleys