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A History of the County of Berkshire
… Ridgeway leading towards Moulsford. Grims Ditch and the Portway can also be traced in the parish. 8 Some place-names …
A History of the County of Worcester
… meeting the road from Birmingham to Alcester (here called Portway), which runs through the parish near its eastern …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… which he sold to John Phillips in 1769. 3 The line of the Portway passes through the village. Aston Upthorpe contains …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… been used for military training in the 20th century. 9 Portway, the Roman road from Silchester to Old Salisbury, … L. & S.W.R. across the parish along the south-east side of Portway: it was opened in 1857 and remained a main line in …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… the high road to Didcot, which further west is called the Portway. 29 The Slade End meadows between this track and the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… north of Wootton, where it was known as Wootton Hill or Portway c. 1190, 17 before meeting the Street Portway. 18 It may have been the highway between Butleigh and …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… and is crossed from east to west by the Ridgeway and the Portway, and in the north by the Wiltshire and Berkshire … The village of Childrey lies a little to the north of the Portway, at the opening of a cleft in the downs known as …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the village east of the cross-roads, called formerly the Portway, later Cambridge lane or way 39 and in 1970 Barton …
A History of the County of Berkshire
… by the Ridgway along the down and by the parallel Portway or Icknield Street 3 half-way down the slope, both … east and west. The village lies a little north of the Portway, and consists of two portions, the church, rectory … track known as Hardwell Lane 8 leads southward to the Portway. At a short distance west of the point where the …
A History of the County of Somerset
… the south-west. In the late 18th century it was known as Portway Lane between Roundham and Maiden Beech Tree, 50 and … the Dorset ports. Also taken over at the same time was the Portway route from Roundham and the tortuous road to Hinton …