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A History of the County of Oxford
… was referred to from the 13th century to the 17th as the 'Portway', the way to the town, 3 but no road of any …
A History of the County of Surrey
… is not to be clearly traced beyond it. It is called the Portway in a rental of 14956. 3 When the church was being … the Kingston and Reigate road, Dene or Deuelonds, the Portway, Motschameles hedge, corner called Merlesherne iuxta …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by the main RoystonCambridge road, called by 1300 the Portway. 43 It was a turnpike from 1793 to 1872. 44 Lanes …
A History of the County of Oxford
… site. 8 Numerous roads converge on the hill: the pre-Roman Portway, a grass lane which crosses the west of the parish, … archaeological refs. see Archaeologia, lxxi. 243. For the Portway and Aves Ditch see above, map facing p. 1; pp. 2, 7. …
A History of the County of Oxford
… going northwards to 'Townsend' and continuing as the 'Portway' to Oxford. 17 The common fields of North End lay on either side of the Portway and south of the way to Denton (i.e. the present … Humble Brook. But some lay close to the village along the Portway at Townsend. 285 Meadow land was valuable and priced …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Barton to Arrington Bridge, called in Grantchester the Portway, runs parallel to the Roman route and south-east of it. 52 The Portway was turnpiked under an Act of 1797, 53 and a toll-bar … 57 which ran from the village's western end to meet the Portway at the border with Barton. Its line followed the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… north of the river, called until the 18th century the Portway. 42 In Little Abington three fieldways ran north …
A History of the County of Oxford
… at inclosure in 1767. 18 Woodstock way, probably the Portway in the south field in the 13th century, ran from the … north of Tracy Farm, and some of the furlongs adjoined Portway, the lane running south from the village towards Poor …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… south-west to north-east. It was probably sometimes called Portway, 55 but a track of that name was recorded running … under an Act of 1797, 59 and disturnpiked in 1870. 60 The Portway trackway and about six ancient roads or trackways …
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 …