Walking the Ridgeway

Today I visited the White Horse of Uffington, along the Ridgeway just on the border between Wiltshire and Oxfordshire. It is such a potent landscape, with stunning views reaching far. The last time I was here was on a pilgrimage for Imbolc, on the first of February 2022. Returning to this landscape as we reach the end of summer and reap the harvest seems quite apt.

Walking the Ridgeway

One thing I always seem to do when walking popular routes is walk off piste - away from the crowds. This is often where the magic lies ~ I find gaps in hedges, old and forgotten paths to walk through, I like to exercise the right roam through these beautiful landscapes every once and a while.

Apples and long golden grass. 

The Ridgeway is Britain’s oldest trail; it’s 5000 years old, and reaches 87 miles covering undulating hills of chalk grassland. Fields of long golden grasses and trees of ripe wild apples align the old walking routes, I really did feel like I was travelling back in time, it was simply wonderful to revisit this landscape and one that I hope to return to again.