MP walks the new Wiltshire walk near Upavon (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)

MP walks the new Wiltshire walk near Upavon

10:00am Sunday 17th April 2011 in News

CLaire Perry MP donned her walking boots to join the Friends of the Ridgeway walking a stretch of the new Plain and Avon Walk that runs for 14 miles from Casterly Camp near Upavon to Stonehenge.

Forty walkers from the West Midlands, Southampton, Berkshire and Northamptonshire joined local people to stride out on the new walking trail, which uses public footpaths, bridleways, military roads and tank tracks open to the public.

Part of this new trail will also become a section of the Great Stones Way walk being created from the Ridgeway at Overton and Stonehenge.

Ian Ritchie, chairman of the Friends of the Ridgeway, said: “People told us how much they enjoyed walking this trail, finding interesting villages and seeing parts of the Wiltshire countryside for the first time.”