Orange Way
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The Orange Way is a long-distance walking route devised to follow the march, in 1688 of Prince William of Orange and his army from Brixham in Devon to London. It is a 350-mile route, not an 'official' long-distance trail and unmarked on maps, but an ingenious one. The route runs through Devon, Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Middlesex.[1]
Suggested route
An intinerary of easy stages suggested by the devisers of the route is:
- Day 1 Brixham to Berry Pomeroy – 10.5 miles
- Day 2 Berry Pomeroy to Chudleigh – 18 miles
- Day 3 Chudleigh to Exeter – 16 miles
- Day 4 Exeter to Woodbury – 9.5 miles
- Day 5 Woodbury to Honiton – 19 miles
- Day 6 Honiton to Axminster – 10.5 miles
- Day 7 Axminster to Beaminster – 17.5 miles
- Day 8 Beaminster to East Coker – 15 miles
- Day 9 East Coker to Goathill – 11 miles
- Day 10 Goathill to Wincanton – 15.5 miles
- Day 11 Wincanton to Hindon – 15 miles
- Day 12 Hindon to Salisbury – 19 miles
- Day 13 Salisbury to Amesbury – 10 miles
- Day 14 Amesbury to Everleigh – 14 miles
- Day 15 Everleigh to Burbage – 8 miles
- Day 16 Burbage to Hungerford – 16 miles
- Day 17 Hungerford to Chieveley – 14.5 miles
- Day 18 Chieveley to Abingdon – 19 miles
- Day 19 Abingdon to Wallingford – 13.5 miles
- Day 20 Wallingford to Whitchurch – 11 miles
- Day 21 Whitchurch to Henley – 16 miles
- Day 22 Henley to Marlow – 9 miles
- Day 23 Marlow to Windsor – 14 miles
- Day 24 Windsor to Brentford – 16 miles
- Day 25 Brentford to St James's Palace, London – 13 miles[2]
Outside links
References
- ↑ "Orange Way". Long Distance Walkers Association. http://www.ldwa.org.uk/ldp/members/show_path.php?path_name=Orange+Way. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ↑ "Orange Way". http://www.walkingpages.co.uk/trails_paths/ldporangeway.html. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
- Ham, Les (2003). The Orange Way: A Long Distance Walk Following the March of William of Orange from Brixham to London in 1688. Meridian Books. ISBN 978-1869922474.