Speaker Meeting, 6.15 for 6.30pm
Mon, Jun 2nd 2014 at 12:00 am - 2:00 am
Speaker: Ian Ritchie, Chairman, Friends of the Ridgeway
Hosts: George Blackwell & David Peaple
The Ridgeway is a network of braided tracks and greenways, thought to be an ancient trade route, perhaps our oldest road, along the northern edge of the chalk escarpment across England between the Dorset coast and the Wash. The central section of 85 miles, between Avebury and the Ivinghoe Beacon hill-fort near Dunstable, has been a National Trail since 1972.
The Friends of The Ridgeway is an association committed to preserving The Ridgeway as a special environment,enabling quiet enjoyment of its landscape, wildlife and special features,promoting greater awareness of its value to the whole community. Its chairman is Ian Ritchie who lives in Ramsbury.
Its objectives are:
- To ensure the preservation and proper maintenance of The Ridgeway path as a high quality route for walkers and other legal users and as a prime recreational facility for the local communities and the public;
- To promote increased awareness and quiet enjoyment of The Ridgeway, and the monuments, environment and landscape along its length, for recreation by foot, horseback and bicycle, with due respect for others and for the environment;
- To advocate the improvement when necessary of the access routes, facilities and services available to visitors and other users of the Ridgeway, and for the economic benefit of local communities;
- To oppose any intrusive and inappropriate developments in the vicinity of the ancient Ridgeway path, or other activities spoiling users
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