The Ridgeway: Scutchamer Knob to Goring
The Ridgeway sets off eastwards alongside racehorse training gallops. Just to the north of this section of the trail, at the base of the scarp, runs Grim’s Ditch, one of three linear earthworks with this name which are passed during the course of the trail. This particular Grim’s Ditch stretches off and on for 8 miles (13km) but does not appear ever to have been continuous. Those sections where the ground was either too steep or wooded were left. Its date is uncertain but it has been suggested that it may represent the boundary between two Iron Age estates.
To the east lies the town of Didcot, with its station and railway centre.
Before long, the route meets a minor road on Bury Down, where there is car parking, and then presses on towards the roar of traffic on the A34.
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