Icknield Way Trail

Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Luton, Oxfordshire, Suffolk

This is a multi-user route for walkers, riders and cyclists providing a bridleway link between the Ridgeway and the Peddars Way. The route is coincident or follows a similar route to the Icknield Way Path. The southern end of the route (23 miles) is complete between Bledlow Cross (where it links with the Swan's Way) and Pitstone Hill (near to Ivinghoe Beacon) on the Ridgeway National Trail. This section passes Princes Risborough, Wendover and Wiggington. The route then follows through Whipsnade, Dunstable, Streatley, Letchworth, Melbourn, Great Chesterford, Newmarket to Knettishall Heath where it joins with the Peddars Way. Though not named on OS maps it is largely coincident with the Icknield Way Path.
The route is waymarked using the Icknield Way axe logo. Waymarking on some parts is being refreshed during 2012.

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Details:

Path Type:	Paths Marked on OS mapping
Waymark:	Named disc with neolithic flint axe emblem
Attributes:	Average Gradients Cycle Route Horse Ride (Multi User) Downland/Wolds Heritage
Start:	SP770012 - Hempton Wainhill, Bledlow, Oxfordshire
Finish:	TL956806 - Knettishall Heath, Suffolk
Web Sites:	Icknield Way Trail

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Publications, Badges and Certificates:

External PDF	Icknield Way  (Buckinghamshire County Council  - 2011 )
Guidebook	Icknield Way path : a guide for horseriders, cyclists and others  (Wimpole Books  - 1993 )
Guidebook	Icknield Way path : a walker's guide : 110 miles along the 'oldest road in Britain' linking the Ridgeway Path to the Peddars Way following footpaths close to the ancient route - including a link to Thetford  (Icknield Way Association  - 2012 )

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