ModerateCircular
White Horse Hill, Uffington Castle and Dragon Hill
A short walk from the National Trust car park round the Iron Age hillfort, above the Bronze Age White Horse and down to Dragon Hill and the Manger.
Walks
Walks around Wantage
Town strolls, canal paths and the chalk downs of the Ridgeway. Each walk has a map, the climb, where to park, where to eat, and a step-by-step description as if we were walking it with you.
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Before you go
Routes follow public rights of way and the National Trail. Paths change: check the National Trail site for diversions, take the OS Explorer map, and follow the Countryside Code.
EasyCircular
Wantage town and the Letcombe Brook
A short, level loop from the Market Place that follows the town's chalk stream past old mills, Betjeman Millennium Park and Willow Walk nature reserve.
ModerateCircular
Letcombe Brook, Letcombe Bassett and Green Road
A spring-line village circuit that follows the brook through a wildlife trust reserve to Letcombe Bassett and returns over the fields on old green lanes.
EasyCircular
The Wantage Arm and the Wilts & Berks Canal
A mostly level loop that follows the line of the old canal branch out of town to the restored main line, Grove Top Lock and East Challow.
EasyCircular
The Hendreds and Ardington
A gentle, mostly flat loop linking three villages below the downs, with brooks, a medieval chapel museum and the Ardington estate.
ModerateCircular
Woolstone, Wayland’s Smithy and the White Horse
From a thatched Vale village up to the Ridgeway, a Neolithic long barrow and the White Horse, returning past Dragon Hill.
ModerateCircular
The Devil’s Punchbowl and Hackpen Hill
A downland loop from Sparsholt Firs round the rim of a dramatic chalk coombe, down to Letcombe Bassett and back up Gramp's Hill to the Ridgeway.
ModerateCircular
West Ilsley, Scutchamer Knob and the Ridgeway
A climb from a racing village to the Ridgeway, out to an ancient barrow with a Saxon story, and back past the gallops on Bury Down.
EasyCircular
Childrey and the Challows from Wantage
A low-level walk from Wantage along old lanes to the spring-line village of Childrey, returning past West Challow church and along the Wilts & Berks Canal.
ModerateCircular
Ashbury, Ashdown House and Alfred’s Castle
A waymarked downland circuit from the Ridgeway past Wayland's Smithy, across sheep-grazed downs to Ashdown House and an Iron Age fort, returning through the chalk-built village of Ashbury.
ModerateCircular
Ardington, the Lockinge estate and the Ridgeway
A circuit from Ardington through East Lockinge, up to Lord Wantage's monument on the Ridgeway, and back along the Ginge Brook.
ModerateCircular
Segsbury Camp and the Wantage Monument
A classic downland circuit from Letcombe Regis through an Iron Age hillfort and along the Ridgeway to Lord Wantage's memorial cross, returning past the racehorse gallops.
ChallengingLinear (one way)
The Ridgeway from White Horse Hill to Wantage
A one-way walk home along the Ridgeway from the White Horse, past Hackpen Hill and Segsbury Camp, then down through Letcombe Regis into Wantage.
ChallengingLinear (one way)
The Ridgeway from Wantage to Goring and Streatley
A long one-way day on the Ridgeway National Trail from Court Hill above Wantage east across the open downs to the Thames at Streatley, finishing at Goring station.