The Ridgeway is an ancient trackway described as Britain's oldest road. At 87 miles (139 km), the route follows the chalk hills between Overton Hill near Avebury, and Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire and represents part of a route in use since Neolithic times. Specifically, the Ridgeway hugs the ridge tops of open downland west of the Goring Gap and the tree-covered Chiltern Hills east of the River Thames, thus avoiding once-difficult woods and marshes in the valleys below. We are one of only a very few pubs who can claim to be ‘on the Ridgeway' as the path passes our front door…literally!