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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… road, called from the 13th century 26 to the 15th 27 the Portway. It was a turnpike between 1793 and 1872. 28 That …
A History of the County of Worcester
… 17th century: Harfordes, Mowes, the Meere, Hingle, Bitton, Portway Peece, Haynes Close, and Sherrowes. 10 Wistanes …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… from the parish: one to Elmdon, one to Strethall, known as Portway 32 (later Coploe Road), and one from the east end of …
A History of the County of Somerset
… Stowey, and was cut by a further east-west route known as Portway Lane, 6 which runs from Stogursey to Holford and …
A History of the County of Oxford
… road, running north, follows the line of the pre-Roman Portway. The Bicester road was the name normally used of … 1563. Foxtown End Farm is partly a 17th-century house, and Portway House, though much altered, has an inscription 'T.W.: … Coll., cited below as St. John's Coll. map, 1750. For Portway and Akeman St. see V.C.H. Oxon. i. 272, 275. ('Vicus …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… siges cotan'), appears to be identical with Draycott. The Portway ('to pm portwege') corresponds with a track which may …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the parish from north to south, follows the line of the Portway, 12 and a third connects Heyford village with Upper …
A History of the County of Warwick
… Pasture. As two of the fields along its course are called Portway 7 it is presumably of some antiquity, and beyond the … 73, 77, 1245. Act 27 Geo. II, c. 42. Ex inf. Mr. J. Lucas. Portway Furlong is mentioned in 1637: Warw. Co. Rec. vi, 38. …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… the lord of the manor lying open until that time. 23 The Portway, the name given to the high road from Wallingford to …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… was used for military training in the 20th century. 11 Portway, the Roman road from Silchester to Old Salisbury, … route was by a road on the east edge of the park and Portway. 15 In 1835 the Bourne valley road was turnpiked as … constructed across the parish along the south-east side of Portway. In 1902 the Amesbury and Military Camp Light Railway …