Icknield Way Path

This article is about the modern footpath. For the ancient trackway which follows a similar route, see Icknield Way.

Icknield Way Path
Ivinghoe Beacon is a trailhead
Length	110 miles (177 km)
Location	Eastern England, United Kingdom
Designation	Long-distance footpaths in the United Kingdom
Trailheads	Ivinghoe Beacon, Buckinghamshire Knettishall Heath, Suffolk
Use	Hiking
Season	All year

The Icknield Way Path is a long distance footpath in the East of England. It follows England's chalk ridge through Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, along a collection of ancient tracks, Roman roads and more recently upgraded footpaths. Along with The Ridgway, the old Icknield Way is thought to be "the oldest road in Britain".

The walking route is around 110 miles (180 km) long - between Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire to the south-west and Knettishall Heath in Suffolk to the north-east. A parallel equestrian and mountain biking route - the Icknield Way Trail - is slightly longer, at 170 miles (270 km). The Icknield Way Association is set up to promote and publicise the routes.

Together with the Wessex Ridgeway, The Ridgeway and Peddars Way, the Icknield Way is part of a coast-to-coast walking route, around 363 miles (584 km) long. In the south, this Greater Ridgeway route's trailhead is at Lyme Regis, on the English Channel in Dorset. Its northern trailhead is at Holme-next-the-Sea, on the North Sea in Norfolk.

The Icknield Way Path was recognised by local authorities in 1992. The association was founded by Charles Thurstan Shaw, archaeologist and long-distance walker, in 1984, the same year he produced the first walker’s guide to the route.