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The Chalke Way is a coast-to-coast walking and cycling route along Britain’s oldest and longest green road. From Weymouth and Seaton beside the English Channel to Holme-next-the-Sea on the North Sea, this meticulously researched and updated guide follows all or part of the the Wessex Rudge, the Smuggler’s, the Ridge, Icknield and Peddar’s Ways. Along its 400 mile length it passes some of the world’s most remarkable prehistoric sites, including Maiden Castle, the Cerne Abbas Giant, Stonehenge, Avebury and Grimes Graves.

More than a trail guide, The Chalke Way is written with a passion and understanding rarely found in a book of this type, and can happily be read from cover to cover as a travel book. Already a classic journey, the route may be undertaken as a single expedition or in easy stages as suggested by sections in the book. Each includes an easy-to-follow map, useful contact details and an evocative description of the area, what to look out for and their historic context relative to the story of this Neolithic highway.

John Stuart Clark is a travel writer and cycle journalist, as comfortable scrambling up mountains as pottering along in the saddle. Under the pen-name Brick, he is perhaps better known as a political cartoonist and illustrator.

An update of The Chalke Way is currently being researched, expanding it's content to cater for walkers as well as cyclists. Several copies of the original bikers guide are still available at the discount price of £8:00 (excluding postage). To order contact me.