South Dorset Ridgeway Heritage Project

The South Dorset Ridgeway is outstanding and is considered by many experts to be as important as Stonehenge and Avebury for revealing the lives of our ancestors. In recognition of this, the Heritage Lottery Fund has supported an exciting programme of events from now until 2011.

This exciting project aims to help you discover more about this very special landscape and the people who have shaped it over the last 8000 years

There are a number of ways in which you can get involved with the project, or explore the Ridgeway for yourself.

A number of resources and publications are being produced to support the project, contact the South Dorset Ridgeway Heritage Project Officer for further information.  Riddles of the Ridgeway a short publication is available to download here 1.11 Mb .

Project partners: Natural England, English Heritage, National Trust, Dorset County Museum, Dorset County Council, Dorset Countryside Rangers Service, Bournemouth University, Wessex Archaeology, West Dorset District Council, Weymouth & Portland District Council, Dorset Association of Parish & Town Councils