The Ridgeway
ancient trackway described as Britain's oldest road
Facts
10 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- ancient trackway, National Trail, long-distance trail[4][5]
Location
- Country
- United Kingdom[3]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 51.563°, -1.350°[8]
More facts +6
- Located in
- England
- Associated electoral district
- Didcot and Wantage[11]
- Connects with
- The Orange Way, Oxfordshire Way[9][10]
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 51.563°, -1.350°
- Historic county
- Berkshire, Wiltshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire[12][13][14][15]
- Terminus
- Overton Hill, Ivinghoe Beacon[6][7]
🏷️ Also known as
en The Ridgeway
de Ridgeway National Trail
de The Ridgeway National Trail
ru Риджуэйская дорога
vi Ridgeway
zh 里奇韦道
🔖 Identifiers · 9
- Library of Congress authority ID
- sh89007216
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Ridgeway mongwell.jpg ↗
- Freebase ID
- /m/07hr1
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- -2606271
- GeoNames ID
- 2639373
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007541754105171
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 8879
- Pleiades ID
- 548806092
- Yale LUX ID
- place/621f887d-3876-4293-846f-0c70a4e3ea29
📚 Sources · 1
- GeoNames CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/London
2026-09-26
R/RDA · GB
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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Associated electoral district 1
Country 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Terminus 1
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Summary
The Ridgeway is an ancient trackway[1].