New Way of the Rings Chipping Norton to Marlborough
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New Way of the Rings Chipping Norton to Marlborough

Eine Fahrradroute, die in Chipping Norton, England, United Kingdom beginnt.

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This  90mile (148km) route is the final segment of The Way of the Rings a 555km route from Castlerigg Stone Circle in the Lakes to Stonehenge, passing through or near Neolithic and historic sites of interest.  It traces a probable route taken by Neolithic people  who journeyed with their pigs and cattle to Stonehenge for the Winter Solstice.

This can be done over 1-2 days taking in each of these sites:

Rollright Stones (near Chipping Norton) The Rollright Stones is an ancient site located on the Oxfordshire & Warwickshire border in England. The complex consists of three main elements, The Kings Men stone circle, the King Stone, and the Whispering Knights. 

Blenheim Palace - through the grounds;  Blenheim Palace a World Heritage Site with over 300 years of History and home to the 12th Duke of Marlborough and his Family. A Historic House and Gardens in Oxfordshire. 

Uffington White Horse - The Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric hill figure, 110 m (360 ft) long, formed from deep trenches filled with crushed white chalk. The figure is situated on the upper slopes of White Horse Hill  which the route passes. 

Stanton Harcourt - The Devil's Quoits, a henge monument  was used throughout the late Neolithic and Beaker periods, and comprised an embanked stone circle c. 280 ft. across, composed of 30 or more stones; it was mostly destroyed in the Middle Ages to make way for cultivation, some of the stones being broken and possibly re-used in Stanton Harcourt church.

Avebury - Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury.  One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world.

Durrington Walls - Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement and later henge enclosure located in the Stonehenge World Heritage Site., 2 miles (3.2 km) north-east of Stonehenge. 

Woodhenge - Woodhenge is an atmospheric Neolithic site close to Stonehenge. Probably built about 2500 BC, it was originally believed to be the remains of a burial mound, surrounded by a bank and ditch almost completely destroyed by ploughing.

Stonehenge - the start or end of the route - Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred tumuli (burial mounds). Archaeologists believe it was constructed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. 

The route can be riden N-S or vice versa.  There is accommodation throughout and superb country pubs. 

Transport - train station at Salisbury (direct service to London) and Pewsey.  There is transport to Stonehenge and from Stonehenge (but not bike-friendly) so this would mean leaving bikes locked at Stonehenge and taking transport to Salisbury Train station to pick up car etc.  If the route is undertaken over 1.5-2 days there is the option for train services from Oxford to  Salisbury (via Reading and Basingstoke).

 

 

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Dauer
93 km
Distanz
633 m
Aufstieg
704 m
Abstieg
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Ø-Tempo
227 m
Ø-Tempo
Kathie Knell
Kathie Knell

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Routenqualität

Wegtypen und Untergründe entlang der Route

Wegtypen

  • Straße

    34 km

    (37 %)

  • Ruhige Straße

    32 km

    (34 %)

  • Vielbefahrene Straße

    14,5 km

    (16 %)

Untergründe

Befestigt

47,2 km

(51 %)

Unbefestigt

1,4 km

(2 %)

  • Asphalt

    45,9 km

    (49 %)

  • Natürlicher Untergrund

    1,4 km

    (2 %)

  • Pflastersteine

    0,7 km

    (<1 %)

Highlights der Route

POIs entlang der Route

  1. Hebe Bild 1 entlang der Bikemap-Route "New Way of the Rings Chipping Norton to Marlborough" hervor

    Interessanter Ort nach 1,6 km

    Great Rollright - The oldest, the Whispering Knights dolmen, is early Neolithic, circa 3,800-3,500 BC, the King's Men stone circle is late Neolithic, circa 2,500 BC; and the King Stone is early to middle Bronze Age, circa 1,500 BC. The Stones are made of natural boulders of Jurassic oolitic limestone which forms the bulk of the Cotswold hills. This stone has been used extensively in the region for building everything from churches and houses to stone walls. The boulders used to construct the Rollright Stones were probably collected from within 500m of the site. The origins of the name The origin of the name ‘Rollright’ is somewhat uncertain. One interpretation is that it is derived from the Old English ‘Hrolla’+ ‘landriht’, the land-right or property of Hrolla. Old English is the earliest historical form of the English language brought to England by Anglo-Saxon settlers probably in the mid 5th century. Another theory is that it is derived from an even older Celtic language ‘rod’ + ‘land’ + ‘ricc’ meaning the ‘ricc’ (groove, gorge or steep valley) by the ‘rodland’ (wheel arena) – i.e. the stone circle.

  2. Interessanter Ort nach 9,3 km

    Hoar Stone at Enstone This was evidently a site of considerable, importance in ancient days if the volume of folklore has anything to go by! Nearly hidden in a small wooded enclosure, between Enstone and Fulwell, where the B4022 meets the Enstone to Ditchley road, we find the ruins of this large chambered tomb. Although today only comprising of three large stones, one of which is almost nine feet tall, when Crawford [1925] visited here there were six stones visible and the remnants stood upon a mound of earth, which is no longer visible. He thought it to be the remains of a dolmen, surrounded by earth, but until substantial excavation work occurs, it is impossible to tell. The present entrance to the site comes from the east.

  3. Interessanter Ort nach 23,3 km

    The remains of North Leigh Roman Villa are set within a peaceful landscape on the banks of the river Evenlode in Oxfordshire. This ‘courtyard villa’ is considered to be one of the larger villas of Roman Britain. It was at its most extensive in the early 4th century, when it included three bath suites, 16 mosaic floors and 11 rooms with under-floor heating. Today, two ranges of the former courtyard arrangement of the villa are visible. The most important feature of the site is a fine mosaic tile floor dating to the early 4th century.

  4. Interessanter Ort nach 23,3 km

    Well worth visiting the Roman villa - slight deviation from route!

  5. Interessanter Ort nach 37,8 km

    Devil's Quoits Fully restored Stone Circle in Oxfordshire. The site is believed to be between 4000 and 5000 years old, and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The Quoits were restored between 2002 and 2008, with stones which had been knocked over or had fallen over being re-uprighted, and the surrouding earthworks re-built. Access: Hamish Fenton writes: you can visit pretty much any time you want depending on where you park your vehicle. There are currently no signs saying "This way to the Devils Quoits". Route 1. (c.450 metres from the car). Just outside Stanton Harcourt of the B4449 a "Recycling Centre" is signposted if you follow the signs to it, then continue just past it you will see a small parking area on your left next to the lake (almost opposite a weighbridge), I think this is where you are supposed to park. the parking area is at the southern end of the lake, there is a gravel path with a wire fence on either side leading off around the lake from the corner of the parking area, follow this path and it will take you around the lake to the Devils Quoits, there are some newly planted trees that you will walk past, when the trees on your right finish, turn sharply around the end of the trees and walk up the slope, you should be at the entrance to the Devils Quoits, there is an information board here. note: the road to the recycling centre is gated and will be locked when the recycling centre is shut

  6. Interessanter Ort nach 40,6 km

    These ditches were laid out to capture burial mounds in which their own ancestors had buried their dead 1,000 years before the ditch builders." "The ditches connect those ancestral remains with natural elements in the landscape in such a way that they could draw down the sacred power of the rising full moon that occurred only once every 18 years. The rivers were equally important for prehistoric people as living forces running through their landscape." "So the ditches are aligned with the River Windrush where it meets the Thames at Newbridge, cuts across a long loop of the Thames before crossing it and heading over Hurst and Cumnor Hills. It ends up at the point where the River Cherwell meets the Thames on Christchurch Meadows."

  7. Interessanter Ort nach 48,1 km

    Hillfort in Oxfordshire From SolarMegalith: Cherbury Camp is located SW from Lovell Court Farm. This multivallate Iron Age fort covers area of 9 acres, the earthworks are in decent condition. In northern part of the hillfort three lines of ramparts and ditches are clearly distinguishable, while on the area enclosed with the ramparts cropmark of a hut circle is visible. The entrance in eastern sector of the hillfort is the original one, the southern was cut in 1930s. Archaeological excavations unearthed Bronze Age arrowheads, Iron Age pottery and coin, as well as Anglo-Saxon brooch. The footpath leading to Cherbury Camp leads through Lovell Court Farm, but it's well disguised - ask the landowner for help, he is a very kind and helpful person.

  8. Interessanter Ort nach 59,8 km

    Uffington Castle Neolithic long barrow submitted by h_fenton Uffington Castle Neolithic long barrowA Neolithic long barrow, 25 metres long by up to 12 metres across and 0.3 metres high. The barrow is aligned roughly southwest to northeast about 70 metres north of Uffington Castle. The long barrow also seems to be the focal point of a later Romano-British inhumation cemetery. The barrow was partially excavated in 1857 when a shaft was dug into the middle (you can still see a depression). A cremation in a large coarse urn was found. Later in the Roman period the barrow became the focus of an inhumation cemetery, 46 skeletons were found in 42 graves some of the skulls were found with coins in their mouths which dated them to be late Roman. In June 1993 some geophysical surveys were done and the barrow was partially re-excavated, this revealed that most of the human remains were still in situ although many of the skulls were missing (the skulls may have been removed during the 1857 excavation)

  9. Interessanter Ort nach 60,5 km

    Causewayed Enclosure in Oxfordshire Rams Hill Fort. Not actually a fort but a 'causewayed camp' between Uffington Castle and Segsbury Camp on The Ridgeway.

  10. Interessanter Ort nach 60,5 km

    Wayland's Smithy This long barrow lies in a plantation of trees on the famous Ridgeway, not far from the Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire. Footpaths lead to the site from both the Uffington Castle carpark and the B4000 which crosses the Ridgeway around a kilometre away. Excavations in the 1960s revealed the barrow was constructed in two phases - a wooden mortuary enclosure with stone floor was later covered by a trapezoidal mound of chalk. Inside there are three chambers, one main one and two to the sides. The long barrow was reconstructed after excavations - pieces of green plastic trellis can be seen protruding from the mound material near the entrance!

  11. Interessanter Ort nach 62,7 km

    Lambourn Long Barrow Lambourn Long BarrowThis long barrow is dated to be one of the earliest in Britain, however little of it remains. The mound is extant, 70m by 18m altough difficult to see its full extent. The barrows is half covered in very tall trees at the end of a small wood. At the western end is a large stone 1m x 1m while at the eastern end is a pile of stones which may have formed some of the barrows structure. Halfway along the southern side is a stone 0.5x x 0.5m. The barrow should be considered in the context of the nineteen round barrows which form the extended Lambourn Barrow Cemetery which are nearby.

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