- a safe cycling route for school children in the villages along the path
- an attractive leisure route from Didcot Parkway Station to the Ridgeway
- an alternative commuter route to HIBC and Chilton
- improved cycle access to Didcot and the station from the villages of East and West Hagbourne and Upton.
The new path was designed to provide access to wheelchairs and children's buggies to ensure that it is available for use by a wide range of users.
The route is also part of a regional route on the National Cycle Network (NCN) to Wantage via HIBC and the Icknield Way- signposted as Regional Route 44. 
(Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Multi Media Mapping )
Sustrans has produced the following maps of the route:
- A detailed map of the route is available from Sustrans' on line mapping service
- A PDF version of Sustrans' Didcot to Wantage and the Ridgeway leaflet. For printed copies of the leaflet please contact Marcus Jones at AEA Technology (0870 190 6159).
The Sustrans 'Art and The Travelling Landscape' project has provided an array of impressive hand-crafted works, seats and sculptures strategically placed along the path. The sculptures are designed and made in English Green Oak by lead-artist Tim Norris and talented design students from Rycotewood Centre in Thame.
For more information see Sustrans press release 11 June 2004