Newsletter October 19, 2024
The Goring Gap from Lardon Chase September turned out to be the wettest on record. And most of it came in the last week of the month. In fact, a month’s rainfall fell within the space of 2 days. This unfortunately co-incided with our busiest week at the end of the month. As you will […]
Newsletter September 6, 2024
Silbury Hill near Avebury, on The Ridgeway This newsletter has been almost ready to send for about two weeks. But things kept getting in the way of finishing it off. The result is that the paragraph below is slightly out of date. But we’ve decided not to tamper with it anymore. We are now approaching […]
Newsletter July 14, 2024
Canary Wharf from the Thames Path at Surrey Docks Farm We’re now well and truly into summer. But it certainly doesn’t feel that way. Throughout the country garden parties and barbeques have been put on hold pending better weather. For the walker, the cooler temperatures are a welcome relief from what can be uncomfortably hot […]
Newsletter June 3, 2024
A new arrival on the Thames It feels like an eternity since we sent our last newsletter out. A lot of water has crossed under the bridge since – excuse the pun! So here’s a brief recap of events. We had a very wet March which led to some early April postponements. By mid-April conditions […]
Newsletter March 28, 2024
Standing water at Bablock Hythe Easter is just around the corner. It’s a little early this year and it’s just as well that we don’t have anyone walking over the holiday weekend because, as you will see in the route news section below, the path continues to be challenging in places. March is usually our […]
How Hilly is The Ridgeway?
With some help from the Ordance Survey we have measured the total ascent of The Ridgeway National Trail and determined that the entire route involves 6,800 feet of ascent. But the pattern of the hills is far from even, as the following chart shows: If we split The Ridgeway into two sections (west and east) […]
Mystery of the Uffington White Horse
There are no less than 16 white horses carved into the chalk hillsides of Britain. Some are older than others. And whilst the White Horse of Kilburn is perhaps the most attractive, the Uffington White Horse is the oldest, dating back to the bronze age, some 3,000 years ago. To create the effect requires more […]
Newsletter February 25, 2024
Dragon’s Hill, The Ridgeway This is our first JOINT Walk the Thames and Walking.Holiday newsletter. For those unfamiliar with Walking.Holiday, this is our sister website where we keep the other walks we host in the south of England. These are the Ridgeway National Trail, the Camino Inglés (the English bit!), and our very own Chilterns Ramble. […]