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Great Stone Way hits stumbling block


"Fears about the number of visitors a new 45-mile walking route will bring means proposed improvements to some rights of way cannot go ahead.

"As a result, a grant offer from the European Union of £27,700 for the scheme linking the World Heritage sites of Stonehenge and Avebury has been withdrawn.

"The Great Stones Way would run from the Iron Age hill fort of Barbury Castle on the Ridgeway National Trail, past the current end of the trail at Overton Hill near Avebury, along the Avon Valley to Amesbury, to end at historic Old Sarum near Salisbury."

More here - http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/10225316.Avebury_stone_Way_hits_stumbling_block/
Littlestone Posted by Littlestone
15th February 2013ce

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