The Great Stones Way and its extension will complete the ancient Ridgeway route across Wessex, and its epicentre at Avebury and Stonehenge, from the north Norfolk coast to the Channel coast in Dorset.
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The Ridgeway National Trail passes through a surprisingly remote part of southern central England. From its start in the World Heritage Site of Avebury, it follows a ridge of chalk hills in a north-easterly direction for 87 miles (139 Km) to reach Ivinghoe Beacon lying to the northwest of London.
THE Ridgeway is the oldest continuously used road in Europe, dating back to the Stone Age. Situated in southern England, built by our Neolithic ancestors, it's at least 5,000 years old, and may even have existed when England was still connected to continental Europe, and the Thames was a tributary of the Rhine.
While wild camping is technically not legal in most parts of England, the National Trails website suggests that most landowners along The Ridgeway won't mind you camping as long as you're a respectful camper (ask the landowner for permission, pitch near sundown and depart by sunrise, start no fires, leave no trace).
From west to east, the four Iron Age hillforts along the Ridgeway are: Barbury Castle, Liddington Castle, Uffington Castle, and Letcombe Castle. Before you get too excited at the idea of visiting these ancient “castles,” remember: these are earthworks, not stone constructions.
Following a route used since prehistoric times by travellers, herdsmen and soldiers, The Ridgeway passes through ancient landscapes through downland, secluded valleys and woodland.
The construction of the oldest road in America took place between 1650-1735, decades before the United States became a country. So with absolutely no doubt or question, the King's Highway is the oldest road in America. The road was was 1,300 miles long and connected Charleston, South Carolina, to Boston, Massachusetts.
Norman Cross to Bourne takes 33 minutes, Bourne to Lincoln takes 46 minutes, and Lincoln to the Humber Bridge takes 54 minutes. A section of the A15 (between Scampton and the M180) provides the longest stretch of straight road in the UK.
Described as Britain's longest dead end road, the drive down to Kinloch Hourn (also marked on maps as Lochhournhead) a tiny settlement sitting on the loch, is 22 miles of rather hair-raising single track road. The drive to starts from the A87 as it rushes by on its way from Loch Ness to the Isle Skye.