Wessex Ridgeway

Wessex Ridgeway near Minterne Magna

The Wessex Ridgeway is a long-distance footpath in Wiltshire and Dorset.

The route runs 136 miles from Marlborough in Wiltshire to Lyme Regis in Dorset, by way of the northern edge of Salisbury Plain and across Cranborne Chase. The footpath was opened in 1994.

At Marlborough, the footpath meets the Ridgeway National Trail which continues into Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Two further long-distance footpaths extend to Hunstanton in Norfolk; together, the four paths are referred to as the 'Greater Ridgeway'.

Landmarks

• Bell Hill
• Coney's Castle
• Lambert's Castle
• Pilsdon Pen
• Lewesdon Hill
• Waddon Hill
• Scratchbury Hill

Outside links

• "Wessex Ridgeway". https://www.ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_path.php?menu_type=S&path_name=Wessex+Ridgeway. Retrieved 25 August 2016. 
• "Wessex Ridgeway". Dorset County Council. https://www.dorsetforyou.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=386528. Retrieved 25 August 2016.