I should have mentioned in the video: thanks to @AllotmentFox who was recently in the area in one of his videos and a chat in the comments there led to me buying the book featured in this video: • In Search of a Doomed ...
The book is "Ancient Trackways of Wessex" by H. W. Timperley
and Edith Brill, first published in 1965 by The History Press. It still seems to be in print (most recent edition 2005, reprinted 2013) and you can get a copy from various online retailers if you're interested.
It talks about a number of ancient tracks and ridgeways in the area, including what they refer to as the Inkpen / North Hants Ridgeway, which runs from Broadbury Banks on Salisbury Plain, via Inkpen Hill on the Hampshire Downs, and ends at Basingstoke.
Today I just walked a short section of it from the village of Hannington to Ladle Hill, the site of an Iron Age hillfort. Along the way I passed Watership Down, made famous by Richard Adams' novel of the same name. I didn't see any rabbits, but later on I did see a dead rat.
Of course this being a Tweedy Outdoors video I also took along lunch to cook while I was out, but struggled to find a good bit of Open Access Land on which to sit. That, plus various other factors (the glum weather, the fact I was time constrained, the difficulty of getting away from other humans) led to me being a bit grumpy on this walk.
I have walked some of the Inkpen Ridgeway before (although I didn't realise it had a name at the time) - see this video: • Hampshire Downs Part 1...
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