 The idea eventually attracted official support and was opened in 1985.The Ribble Valley is an area of of natural beauty from the north-west coast to the Lake District.The official course of the Ribble Way that is marked on the Ordnance Survey (2010) OS Openspace maps starts at Longton, the mouth of the River Ribble just west of Preston, above mean sea level and finishes at Grove head, just north of Cam Fell, above mean sea level.