The Icknield Way near Whipsnade, Bedfordshire, England. August 2024. The Icknield Way is a trackway since more than 2500 years that linked Norfolk and Wiltshire, much of it follows chalk escarpments in the Chilterns and Berkshire Downs. It is now a popular walking route.

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Haunted land. Here, the prehistoric pathways of the Ridgeway and Icknield Way meet. These roads are the oldest in Britain. They connect sites from Avebury to the White Horse of Uffington; while flint mined here made its way to Neolithic Europe; flint arrowheads & artefacts litter the fields beside the paths. The sunsets turn the winter land spectral & the skies alive. Walking from Ivinghoe Beacon across the downs is silent & perfect.

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