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The Ridgeway: day eight- Aldbury to Ivinghoe Beacon and the Bridgewater Monument

Mr and Mrs Three Points of the Compass wind up their summer adventure with a short climb to the eastern end of the Ridgeway and a visit to the monument to the 'canal duke'

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The Ridgeway: day seven- Princes Risborough to Aldbury

Our penultimate day on the Ridgeway. But with much to see, over 15 miles to walk and an early restaurant booking waiting for us, would we get there in time. And should we pop in to visit the Prime Minister on the way?

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The Ridgeway: day six- Watlington to Princes Risborough

After a cracking days walk yesterday, we were looking forward to another day on the Ridgeway. But would we beat the rain that is forecast?

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The Ridgeway: day five- Goring to Watlington

A day of promise- fine weather, water meadows, iron age construction, medieval paintings, polo ponies, and not forgetting, tea and cakes in a church.

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The Ridgeway: day four- Letcombe Regis to Goring

Another wet day on the Ridgeway beckoned. It was going to be one of those Type Two days that requires a little internal discipline.

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The Ridgeway: day three- Woolstone to Letcombe Regis

Another day on the Ridgeway. A drier day than yesterday, a shorter day than yesterday, and yet more Iron Age Hill Forts to explore

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The Ridgeway: day two- Ogbourne St George to Woolstone

Today's section takes us to the highest point on the Ridgeway, plus another Iron Age fort and neolithic long barrow. But it's going to be a wet day...

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The Ridgeway: day one- East Kennett to Ogbourne St George

Our first day on trail starts with a rolling route across the Marlborough Downs, heading toward an Iron Age hill fort, complete with fork-tailed raptors above.

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The Ridgeway: day zero- Arriving at Avebury

Mrs Three Points of the Compass joins me on another hike- the 87 mile Ridgeway. Following over 5000 years of history from Avebury to Leighton Buzzard.

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England Coast Path: ‘champing’ at Cooling

The Iwade to Grain section of the England Coast Path has recently been officially signed off. I walked it last summer when I completed a circuit of the Isle of Grain, enjoying an unusual overnighter on the way.

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Trail talk: LDWA National Trails Register

Three Points of the Compass has a glance at the National Trails Register maintained by the Long Distance Walkers Association, giving himself a pat on the back at the same time.

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Trail talk: finally opening my mail

Three Points of the Compass finally gets round to opening a package received in the post over five years ago

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Trail talk: the Coast to Coast- my gear

Three Points of the Compass takes a glance at the gear he carried on a recent walk across northern England on the Coast to Coast Path

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Trail talk: the Coast to Coast- the Moors

Three Points of the Compass enters the final part of a walk across northern England. The Coast to Coast climbs back up into the hills of the North York Moors, heading to Robin Hood's Bay.

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Trail talk: the Coast to Coast- the Vale of Mowbray, the ‘flat bit’

Three Points of the Compass heads toward the least demanding part of the trail- a couple of day's hike across low lying agricultural farmland, prior to a final National Park on this two-hundred mile walk across northern England.

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Trail talk: the Coast to Coast- the Dales

Three Points of the Compass continues his Coast to Coast. Leaving the Lake District behind to enter the Yorkshire Dales, the second of three National Parks on this two-hundred mile walk across northern England.

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Trail talk: the Coast to Coast- the Lakes

Three Points of the Compass sets off on the Coast to Coast Path- backpacking across northern England from the Irish Sea to the North Sea, taking in three National Parks en-route.

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Trail talk: Cotswold Way- day eleven. Cold Ashton to Bath

Our final day- a walk through pastoral England, wide views, ancient battlefields and a racecourse ahead, before a final descent into an historic city, with it's Roman Baths and the architectural splendour of the Abbey.

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Trail talk: Cotswold Way- day ten. Old Sodbury to Cold Ashton (Pennsylvania)

Easier walking today with few hills. Crossing busy roads, a deer park, ancient strip lynchets and passing a hill fort where English history was redrawn by the establishment of new political and cultural boundaries.

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Trail talk: Cotswold Way- day nine. Wotton-under-Edge to Old Sodbury

Today took us first to one of the oldest houses in England, then on to the ramparts and ditches of the most impressive of hill forts on the Cotswold Way. Later, we would pass through parkland landscaped by Capability Brown in the mid-eighteenth century

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