A few weeks ago Aylesbury MP, Laura Kyrke-Smith, joined Doug Landman and Tom Chevalier from the Icknield Way Association at the newly-installed Great Chalk Way information board on Ivinghoe Beacon on the Bedfordshire/Buckinghamshire/Hertfordshire borders to celebrate the launch last year of the longest oldest prehistoric coast to cast trail in Britain which is now seeking […]
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Two of our members have shared their experiences of walking the western sections of the Icknield Way. Their two blogs are posted on our Media page, please have a read. Caryl has also shared her research into Bed & Breakfast type accommodation which may be helpful to members.
The Icknield Way Association has wardens responsible for sections of the route to ensure the route is kept in good order. We currently have vacancies for the following sections, which can be split to suit wardens: The warden duties are ideal for someone who lives near the section of route so they can walk the
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Pace are organising a charity BIG walk on 10th May. They have various length walks with the longest walk using the Icknield Way from Dunstable to Ivinghoe Beacon before joining the Ridgeway to Wendover. The shorter walks are from points on the Ridgeway to Wendover. Since 1990, Pace has been changing the lives of children
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The Icknield Way has three stone plinth milestones along the Icknield Way. One at each end, Ivinghoe Beacon and Knettishall Heath and one in the middle at Balsham. These plinths have been in place since 1992 – see Early Icknield Way. Over the last 30 years they have become rather more ‘natural’, so the committee
Last month I posted a link to John’s 70 year walk. On Sunday 5th May he started on his journey from Thame, Bucks planning to arrive in Thetford, Norfolk on the 19th May – his 70th birthday. On this way passing the “The Parish of The Icknield Way Villages” west of the M11 where he
John Simmons – has started his 70 year walk Read More »
In September 1992, the Icknield Way Association formally unveiled a “mile stone” at Balsham to mark the route of the Icknield Way. More details of this event are available in the IWA page. Additional stones of the same design are at each end of the route – Ivinghoe Beacon and Knettishall Heath. We believe these
Calling stonemasons… Read More »
The Bedfordshire Ramblers group runs a team called Ripple who regularly meet to do maintenance on the rights of way network. Last week they replaced five broken waymark posts on the Icknield Way path across Whipsnade golf course. The path here takes a sharpe left turn at the Bucks/Beds boarder and then runs over several
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The Icknield Way path in Dagnall from Studham Road up to Whipsnade golf club has been improved. Representations were made to Edlesborough Parish Council and Buckinghamshire county council about the condition of the path but no-one could determine the landowner. Then in December contractors arrived, cut back the vegetation and installed a new surface on
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