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-The Project Gutenberg eBook of Early British Trackways, Moats,
-Mounds, Camps, and Sites, by Alfred Watkins
-
-This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and
-most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions
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-
-Title: Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps, and Sites
-
-Author: Alfred Watkins
-
-Release Date: February 2, 2023 [eBook #69934]
-
-Language: English
-
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-
-*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EARLY BRITISH TRACKWAYS,
-MOATS, MOUNDS, CAMPS, AND SITES ***
-
-
- [Illustration: FRONTISPIECE.
-
- 1. Castle Tomen, Radnor Forest.
- 2. A Glade on a Ley.
- 3. Four Stones, New Radnor.]
-
-
-
-
- Early British
- Trackways, Moats,
- Mounds, Camps,
- and Sites.
-
-
- A Lecture given to the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, at Hereford,
- September, 1921, by ALFRED WATKINS, Fellow and Progress Medallist
- (for 1910), of the Royal Photographic Society; Past President (1919)
- of the Woolhope Club. With illustrations by the Author, and much
- added matter.
-
-
- 1922:
- HEREFORD: THE WATKINS METER CO.
- LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO., LTD.
-
-
-
-
- TABLE OF CONTENTS.
-
-
- PAGE
-
- TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS 4
-
- FOREWORD 7
-
- INTRODUCTION 9
-
- OUTLINE OF CONCLUSIONS 10
-
- PROOF 11
-
- THE LEY 12
-
- ANTIQUITY OF THE LEY 13
-
- INDIVIDUALITY OF A LEY 13
-
- MOUNDS 14
-
- EARTH-CUTTINGS 15
-
- WATER SIGHTING-POINTS 15
-
- MARK-STONES 16
-
- SIGHTING STONES 17
-
- TREES 19
-
- CAMPS 20
-
- CHURCHES 21
-
- CASTLES 22
-
- TRADERS’ ROADS 22
-
- HEREFORD TRACKWAYS 23
-
- TRADITIONAL WELLS 24
-
- PREVIOUS DATA 25
-
- ROMAN ROADS 26
-
- PLACE NAMES 26
-
- DISCOVERY BY PLACE NAME 30
-
- THE LEY-MEN 30
-
- HINTS TO LEY-HUNTERS 31
-
- A FEW LEYS 33
-
- ENDWORD 34
-
- INDEX 35
-
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 41
-
-
-
-
- TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
-
-
- FRONTISPIECE. Top. Castle Tomen, Radnor Forest, 1,250 feet
- above the sea, and is supposed to be the Cruger Castle of the
- Itinerary of Giraldus. Background. A glade on a ley. Bottom. The
- Four Stones, New Radnor, the easterly pair lined up for sighting
- over.
-
- PLATE I. PRIMARY PEAK. Titterstone Clee Hill, and Park Hall,
- Bitterley.
-
- PLATE II. MOUNDS. 1, Tre-fedw, Pandy. The Skirrid, a primary
- peak, in distance. 2, Didley. With homestead alongside.
-
- PLATE III. MOUND and MOAT. 1, Houghton Mound. 2, Lemore Moat.
- Note how slight is the dividing line between this type of mound
- and a moat.
-
- PLATE IV. THREE-POINT PROOFS. 1 (a telephotograph), Hereford
- Cathedral and Pen-y-Beacon. Here the camera stood on a known ley
- in gateway near top of Hafod Hill, and the line runs through
- pond at foot (marked by sheet of paper), tower of Cathedral, and
- the 20 mile distant mountain point or bluff. Another ley is seen
- crossing the meadow in a straight line just where “the lowing
- herd winds slowly o’er the lea.” 2, Tre-fedw Mound (see Plate
- II.), shown at top of sighting line down present road to ancient
- Monnow ford (alongside present bridge) at Llanvihangel Mill.
-
- PLATE V. SIGHTING CUTTINGS (all telephotographs). 1, Notch with
- earthwork at Trewyn Camp above Pandy (Black Mountains). 2,
- Cutting through top of ridge at Marstow, a bridge now spans it,
- and the sighting line down to a ford on the Garron is indicated.
- The road beyond the cutting is on the ley. 3, Black Darren,
- Longtown (Black Mountains). This is taken from the Tan House,
- Longtown, and only 100 yards to right or left the notch begins
- to lessen and then disappear.
-
- PLATE VI. CAUSEWAYS. 1, Through pond near Ten Houses (now Priory
- Terrace), Holmer. Note the unmistakable direction, confirmed on
- map. 2, Through the River Monnow, behind Tan House, Longtown. A
- piece of fine engineering, the below-stream edge of large stones
- embedded in grouting or concrete. This ley is over the notch in
- Plate V.
-
- PLATE VII. CAUSEWAYS. 1, Over a ford of Olchon Brook, Longtown.
- 2, Ingestone, Ross. Through the “fold” and straight to the
- centre of the pond against the house. I cannot assign a period
- to any of these.
-
- PLATE VIII. LEYS DISPLAYED. 1, Rhiw (mountain track) south of
- Llanthony Abbey, Mon. This is sighted for Balmawr on the ridge,
- and shows that where possible even mountain side tracks were
- kept straight. Taken in evening light and shows (on left) the
- triple tracks down which it is surmised the tile stones for
- roofing the Abbey to have been slid from the quarry on the top.
- 2, Stones at base of ancient Wye-side causeway at Bartonsham
- (formerly Bassam) Farm, Hereford City. The stones continue in a
- “wash-out” in bed of river to right, and the ley is sighted over
- tumps at Hoggs Mount and Holmer Lane. Note on bank to right the
- mark-stone for the ford (see Plate IX.).
-
- PLATE IX. MARK-STONES. 1, Red Lion, Madley. On a “red line”
- ley from the Whitney pottery. Note subsequent boundary stone
- alongside. 2, Credenhill. 3, Wye Street, Hereford, marking the
- Palace Ford; there are a pair of these stones. Bartonsham Farm,
- Hereford (see Plate VIII.).
-
- PLATE X. TRANSITION OF MARK-STONE TO CROSS.
-
- 1, Wergin’s Stone, Sutton. With flat face suited for sighting.
- A cavity for payments (or offerings) on the flat base. Early
- example of “shaft and base.” 2, Pedlars Cross above Llanigon. A
- menhir chipped into rude semblance of a cross. 3, In churchyard,
- Vowchurch, unworked base. A ley runs through it. Inset, Sighting
- hole in shaft of Bitterley Cross. 4, In Capel-y-fin churchyard
- (Black Mountains).
-
- PLATE XI. CHURCHYARD CROSS. Bitterley (see Inset Plate X.).
-
- PLATE XII. TREE. Eastwood Oak, Tarrington, on a ley.
-
- PLATE XIII. TREES. 1, A “One Tree Hill” near
- Llanvihangel-nant-Melan. 2, Monnington Walks, an avenue of
- Scotch Firs (Scots Pines) on a ley sighted on Scar Rock,
- Brobury, seen in distance. See Map, Plate XIX.
-
- PLATE XIV. CAMPS. 1, Sutton Walls. One of the sighting mounds,
- there being four, a pair at eastern end, a pair at this the
- western end. 2, Herefordshire Beacon. Winds Point to the left.
-
- PLATE XV. CHURCH. Church Lane, Ledbury. The detached tower of
- Ledbury Church is shown on the ley.
-
- PLATE XVI. CASTLE. Wigmore Castle. The keep is on a sighting
- mound, the ley passing also through the church, as is almost
- invariable where castle and church are near together.
-
- PLATE XVII. CASTLE. Brampton Bryan Castle (on a sighting mound)
- with Coxall Knoll, another mound, in the distance on the right.
-
- PLATE XVIII. HOUSE IN MOAT. Gillow.
-
- PLATE XIX. MAP. TWO LEYS. A, Consecutive strips
- containing the straight ley from Glascwm Hill to Birley Hill
- _via_ four mounds; Turret Tump, The Camp, Batch Twt,
- Almeley, Moat, Sarnesfield Coppice; and Weobley Church.
- B, Little Mountain to Holy Well Malvern, through Moccas
- “Castle” Tump, Preston-on-Wye Church, Byford Ford, Holmer
- Church, Palmer’s Court, Moat, Shucknell, Walsopthorne. Portions
- of two interesting leys are also shown. C, Scar Rock,
- Brobury, through Monnington Walks to Monnington Church (see
- Plate XIII.); and D, Little Mountain (Westbrook),
- through Arthur’s Stone (dolmen), Cross End, Moccas Church,
- Monnington Church, St. Ann’s Well, and Priory Church, Malvern.
-
- PLATE XX. MAP. Portions of eight leys passing through
- Capel-y-tair-ywen (Chapel of the three yew trees), a chapel
- site, originally a mound, described in Woolhope Transactions,
- 1898, p. 38, on the high plateau below the great northern
- escarpment of the Black Mountains. A, Hay Tump (near
- church ford) to Pen-y-Beacon, on to Castle Tump, Rhos-goch.
- B, Mouse Castle to Tumpa, passes through Maes-coch
- (red field), Priory Wood, and the ancient “red” pottery,
- Whitney. C, Merbach to Llanelieu Church. D,
- Mynydd-brith Tump to Talgarth Church. E, Castle Tump,
- Dorstone, to Moat at Felin-fach. F, Snodhill Castle
- to Aberllynfi Gaer; beyond Snodhill it passes to or through
- Holy Well, near Blakemere. G, Michaelchurch Escley to
- Llanigon Mound. H, Black Hill (Olchon) to Painscastle
- Mound.
-
-
-
-
- FOREWORD.
-
- _To the Average Reader._
-
-
-I judge that you pick up this booklet with much the same ideas on the
-subject that I had a few months ago. The antiquarians had not helped
-you or me very much, but had left us with vague ideas and many notes of
-interrogation.
-
-On early trackways they alternated between a misty appreciation
-of hill-tracks and ridgeways, and an implied depreciation of all
-track-makers before the Romans came. To learn the meaning of mounds
-they did not go beyond the child’s investigation of a drum, cut it
-open to see; and, if nothing was there, quite failed to profit by such
-valuable negative evidence. In perhaps one moat in five they found a
-dwelling, and argued finely on the defensive importance of a ring of
-water; but as to the other four, with no dwelling, and in unexplained
-positions, they closed their eyes.
-
-I do not know, dear reader, whether you will be as much astonished
-in reading the new facts which I disclose, and the deductions I feel
-obliged to make, as I have been in the disclosure. Frankly, if another
-person told them to me, I should want to verify before acceptance. And
-I try to aid you to verify. But do note this--that the important point
-in this booklet is the previously undiscovered string of facts, which
-make it necessary to revise former conclusions. My deductions may be
-faulty. But the facts are physical ones, and anyone can test in their
-own district whether moats, mounds and churches do not line up in
-straight lines with a hill peak at one end, and with bits of old tracks
-and antiquarian objects on the line.
-
-So please do not begin with the false--as being inapplicable--word
-“theory.” I had no theory when, out of what appeared to be a tangle,
-I got hold of the one right end of this string of facts, and found to
-my amazement that it unwound in orderly fashion and complete logical
-sequence.
-
-Make your own deductions when you have verified, and I have tried to
-help you.
-
- [Illustration:
-
- Plate I. PRIMARY PEAK.
-
- Titterstone Clee Hill and Park Hall, Bitterley.]
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE II. MOUNDS.
-
- 1. Tre-Fedw, Pandy. Skirrid in Distance.
- 2. Didley.]
-
-
-
-
- EARLY BRITISH TRACKWAYS.
-
- MOATS, MOUNDS, CAMPS AND SITES.
-
-
-
-
- INTRODUCTION.
-
-
-I have read of a lad who, idly probing a hill-side rabbit hole, saw
-a gleam of gold, then more, and in short had found a royal treasury.
-And he could not show all to those interested, but only samples, and
-he made mistakes in describing the dates and workmanship of the coins,
-vessels and jewels. But the treasure was there all the same.
-
-I knew nothing on June 30th last of what I now communicate, and had no
-theories. A visit to Blackwardine led me to note on the map a straight
-line starting from Croft Ambury, lying on parts of Croft Lane past
-the Broad, over hill points, through Blackwardine, over Risbury Camp,
-and through the high ground at Stretton Grandison, where I surmise
-a Roman station. I followed up the clue of sighting from hill top,
-unhampered by other theories, found it yielding astounding results in
-all districts, the straight lines to my amazement passing over and over
-again through the same class of objects, which I soon found to be (or
-to have been) practical sighting points.
-
-For the sake of clearness I will give an outline of the whole method
-before furnishing proofs and examples.
-
-It is necessary first to clear the mind of present ideas of roads from
-town to town, or with enclosed hedges, also of any assumption that
-orderly road planning was introduced by the Romans, and that my paper
-is to explain the Roman roads.
-
-Presume a primitive people, with few or no enclosures, wanting a few
-necessities (as salt, flint flakes, and, later on, metals) only to
-be had from a distance. The shortest way to such a distant point was
-a straight line, the human way of attaining a straight line is by
-sighting, and accordingly all these early trackways were straight, and
-laid out in much the same way that a marksman gets the back and fore
-sights of his rifle in line with the target.
-
-
-
-
- OUTLINE OF CONCLUSIONS.
-
-
-During a long period, the limits of which remain to be discovered,
-but apparently from the Neolithic (later flint) age on past the Roman
-occupation into a period of decay, all trackways were in straight lines
-marked out by experts on a sighting system.
-
-Such sighting lines were (in earlier examples) from natural mountain
-peak to mountain peak, usually not less than 1,000 ft., in this
-district, probably lower heights in flat districts, such points being
-terminals.
-
-Such a sighting line (or ley) would be useless unless some further
-marking points on the lower ground between were made. Therefore
-secondary sighting points were made, easily to be seen by the ordinary
-user standing at the preceding sighting point, all being planned on one
-straight line. These secondary, and artificial, sighting points still
-remain in many cases, either as originally made, or modified to other
-uses, and a large number are marked on maps, and are the basis of my
-discovery.
-
-They were constructed either of earth, water or stone, trees being also
-planted on the line. Sacred wells were sometimes terminals in the line,
-and sometimes included as secondary points.
-
-Between the sighting points the trackway ran straight, except in cases
-of physical impossibility, but did not of necessity go as far as the
-primary hill tops.
-
-Earth sighting points were chiefly on higher ground, and now bear the
-name of tump, tumulus, mound, twt, castle, bury, cairn, garn, tomen,
-low, barrow, knoll, knap, moat and camp. Another form of earth sighting
-point was in the form of a notch or cutting in a bank or mountain ridge
-which had to be crossed by the sighting line.
-
-Water sighting points seem to have evolved from the excavations made
-for the tumps or moats. Almost all are on low ground, to form a point
-or ring of reflection from higher ground, and are now known as moats
-and ponds.
-
-Stone sighting or marking points were natural (not dressed) blocks.
-
-Sighting lines were (in earliest examples) up to 50 or 60 miles in
-length, later on rather shorter, down to a few miles.
-
-Sighting points were used for commerce and for assemblies of the
-people.
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE III. MOUND AND MOAT.
-
- 1. Houghton Mound.
- 2. Lemore Moat.]
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE IV. THREE-POINT PROOFS.
-
- 1. Sighting Pond, Hereford Cathedral, Pen-y-Beacon.
- 2. Ford at Llanvihangel Mill, Road, Tre-Fedw Mound. (See Plate II.)]
-
-When troublesome times came and stronger defences wanted, the groups of
-two or three sighting tumps which came near together (especially on the
-top of a hill) often had defensive earthworks added to make a fortified
-enclosed camp.
-
-These trackways of successive ages grew so thick on the ground as to
-vie in number with present day roads and by-ways.
-
-All forms of sighting points became objects of interest, superstition,
-and genuine veneration, and as such were utilized on the introduction
-of Christianity.
-
-Practically all ancient churches are on the site of these sighting
-points (tumps or stones), usually at a cross of tracks, and there is
-evidence that in some cases the churchyard cross is on the exact spot
-of the ancient sighting or marking stone.
-
-In time, homesteads clustered round the sighting points, especially the
-ponds.
-
-The moats and tumps were often adopted in after ages as sites for the
-defensive houses or castles of wealthy owners.
-
-Hundreds of place names give support to these propositions.
-
-
-
-
- PROOF.
-
-
-The facts I have discovered, which lead up to the conclusions, can be
-verified for the most part on an inch to mile ordnance map with aid of
-a straight edge.
-
-Taking all the earthworks mentioned, add to them all ancient churches,
-all moats and ponds, all castles (even castle farms), all wayside
-crosses, all cross roads or junctions which bear a place name, all
-ancient stones bearing a name, all traditional trees (such as gospel
-oaks), marked on maps, and all legendary wells. Make a small ring
-round each on a map. Stick a steel pin on the site of an undoubted
-sighting point, place a straight edge against it, and move it round
-until several (not less than four) of the objects named and marked come
-exactly in line.
-
-You will then find on that line fragments here and there of ancient
-roads and footpaths, also small bits of modern roads conforming to it.
-Extend the line into adjoining maps, and you will find new sighting
-points on it, and it will usually terminate at both ends in a natural
-hill or mountain peak, or sometimes (in the later examples) in a
-legendary well or other objective.
-
-If you travel along the actual sighting line you will find fragments of
-the road showing as a straight trench in untilled land, although these
-are few and far between, as the plough obliterates it all. The line
-usually crosses a river at a known ford or ferry. Sighting tumps not
-marked on the map are also to be found.
-
-Two specific proofs are illustrated in Plate IV. and explained in the
-Table of Illustrations. Also from the highest point of the earthworks
-of Dinedor Camp the spire of All Saints’ Church can be seen precisely
-between the pinnacles of Hereford Cathedral, thus showing a sighting
-tump and two churches on one ley. The Offa Street example (see under
-Churches) is another three-point proof.
-
-
-
-
- THE LEY.
-
-
-The sighting line was called the ley or lay. Numbers of farms and
-places on sighting lines bear this first name, viz., the Ley Farms,
-Weobley, Grafton, Stoke Edith, and many other places. Wyaston Leys,
-Monmouth, Tumpey Ley and Red Lay, near Letton, and Redley in Cusop
-parish.
-
-There were cleverly planned high level mountain tracks which, although
-on an average sighting line, could not (being on the side of a mountain
-ridge) keep straight, but took a serpentine course, in round the cwms,
-and out round the headlands. But viewed edgeways they are a straight
-line (see Plate VIII.) as keeping a uniform level or slope. Such are
-found high on the Malvern ridge, the road (on three leys) through
-Oldcastle to Blaen Olchon, the lovely Bicknor Walks near Symonds Yat,
-the Precipice Walk near Dolgelly.
-
-There are signs of parallel trackways quite close together, whether one
-to take the place of an older one I do not know. And between Malvern
-Wells and Hanley Swan are three symmetrical triangular woods (see Map,
-Plate XIX.), which I find indicate parallel roads, one-sixth mile
-apart, running northwards, and with a collecting road here at right
-angles, which comes over the ridge and through Mainstone Court. There
-are six of these equidistant parallel roads.
-
-The fact of the ley is embedded in the rural mind. A country man in
-directing your path will invariably bring in the now misleading, but
-once correct, “keep straight on.” It was once absolutely necessary to
-“keep straight on” in the ley, for if you did not you would be de-leyed
-on your journey. This is not said as a pun, but as in some succeeding
-sentences, to point out the place of the ley in the evolution of our
-language.
-
-Where the ley laid in a wood became a glade (see Frontispiece). We
-came through one over Worsell Wood in a Club excursion on our way to
-Gladestree. Where the ley had lain for a time often became a lane.
-This last noun became a verb used in the 18th century enclosure acts,
-where ground was “laned out.” Where it was so laned out it became land.
-There is a Laynes Farm near Huntley.
-
-It is still a common phrase to go out to see “the lay (or lie) of the
-land.”
-
-The trackways are chiefly 6 feet 6 in. to 9 feet wide. I illustrate two
-pitched causeways at Longtown, a fine one through the Monnow near the
-Tan House, and the other close to a ford over Olchon Brook (Plate VI.).
-Another through the farm yard at Ingestone (Ross) going to the centre
-of the sighting pond (Plate VII.).
-
-
-
-
- ANTIQUITY OF THE LEY.
-
-
-The word “ancient” covers a vast period. If--as I have proved--the
-tumps or burys are sighting tumps, excavations also prove that they
-usually date back to the Neolithic age, which, according to Mr. Ault’s
-recent “Early Life in Britain,” cannot be later than 2,000 B.C., and
-may be 4,000 B.C. A prehistoric trackway might, therefore, be planned
-and made more than three thousand years before the Old Road (which is a
-route rather than a road) was devised or evolved--as Mr. Belloc so well
-describes--as a Pilgrim’s Way from Winchester to Canterbury.
-
-I have found that the persistent things down the ages are not the
-courses of the roads or tracks, but their sighting points, and
-that cross roads with a place name are such. Place names are also
-persistent, some of them going back to prehistoric times, but others
-evidently mediæval. But the real dating of the leys and when the system
-fell into decay is for future investigation.
-
-
-
-
- INDIVIDUALITY OF A LEY.
-
-
-Each ley or track was as separate and distinct from other leys as each
-animal or tree is an organism distinct from other animals or trees.
-As they crossed each other, no doubt users often transferred from one
-to the other at the crossing, and struck out in an altered direction,
-hence the place name element “turn.” But the way thus travelled was a
-route, not a road. It is an absurdity to speak of a sighted road having
-branches, or bending. Each individual track was “a long lane that has
-no turning.”
-
-Previous writers, treating, say, of Roman or of mediæval roads, not
-knowing of the existence of the ley, assume that they are speaking of
-original primary structures, when they are only describing a route
-evolved from a number of the leys I describe, retaining the sighted
-structure in the case of Roman roads, but losing most of it by mediæval
-times.
-
-Many leys acquired in after ages individual names from the use they
-were put to, and such names were transferred to the sighting points.
-
-I find in several cases a group of leys with sighting points passing
-quite close to, and taking no notice of, quite a distinct group of leys
-with other sighting points, the two sets being either of two different
-periods, or part of separate systems made by different sets of ley-men
-living in different districts.
-
-A most surprising fact is the enormous number of leys.
-
-
-
-
- MOUNDS.
-
-
-The mounds whose many names I have mentioned are artificial. I do not
-question the fact that they were often used as burial mounds, and
-perhaps even built with that end in view; but the straight leys on
-which I find practically all in this district line up (in connection
-with other sighting points) prove their primary purpose to be sighting
-tumps. Arthur’s Stone, a dolmen, which was probably the core of a
-burial tump, is on two sighting lines.
-
-I find various stages of evolution of the tump. The small tump at a
-road junction for the local road construction, examples at Cross in
-Hand, Belmont, Hungerstone, Shelwick old Turnpike, near Bowley Town
-(called the Stocks). With most of these the pond from which the earth
-was dug adjoins. When much larger tumps were wanted the trench of
-earth to make them was dug in the form of a ring, and a moated tump
-resulted, as at Eardisland (with water), Pont Hendre, Longtown (dry).
-The water in these excavations proved to be splendid sighting points
-by reflection from higher ground, and the moats with no tump but a
-flat plateau within a ring of water evolved. Many tumps on banks, as
-at Tre-Fedw, near Pandy, show no excavations. Many tumps were at the
-junction of leys, showing the technical skill of the early surveyors,
-who must have moved a temporary sighting point on one ley until it fell
-in the line of a second ley. A sighting tump always commanded a fine,
-clear view in at least two directions, and in after ages was coveted
-as a dwelling spot. At Didley is an instance of the simple homestead
-against it. Thus sighting produced the sites, this being only one of
-many instances where the record of the ley is embedded in the English
-tongue. The generic name of Merry Hill applied (as near Hereford) to
-many tumps gives a clue to their use as assembly points for recreation,
-confirmed by folk lore and surviving customs of dancing in a circle
-with hands linked. The folk-mote was held at a tump with a dry moat, so
-admirably adapted for seating.
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE V.
-
- SIGHTING CUTTINGS.
-
- 1. Trewyn Camp, Black Mountains.
-
- 2. Marstow, Road Spanned by Bridge.
-
- 3. Black Darren, Longtown.]
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE VI.
-
- CAUSEWAYS.
-
- 1. Through Pond, Ten Houses, Holmer.
-
- 2. Through River Monnow, Longtown.]
-
-
-
-
- EARTH CUTTINGS.
-
-
-Where a mountain ridge stood in the path of a ley, the surveyor,
-instead of building a tump on the ridge as a sighting point, often cut
-a trench at the right angle and in the path of the ley. This shows as
-a notch against the sky and makes a most efficient sighting point from
-below. I have counted eight such artificial notches in the mountain
-ridge when on the road from Llanvihangel Crucorney to Longtown. Each
-notch can only be seen on the line of sight, and disappears when a
-quarter of a mile right or left. They are sometimes emphasised (as at
-Trewyn Camp) by an earth work thrown up on one side. The Wych on the
-Malvern ridge is an instance.
-
-The two fine gaps near Flansford (Goodrich) and Marstow (Plate V.),
-both with bridges over them, are also ancient sighting cuttings.
-
-The sighting cuttings were also used in passing over banks in lower
-ground. Cullis is one of the names for such an earth cutting, as
-Portcullis between Withington and Preston Wynne, and High Cullis above
-Gatley Park, recently visited by the Club.
-
-There is a very neat example of such a cutting at Hungerstone, near
-Allensmore, where the cutting in the bank allows the ley to be sighted
-on to a pond on its way to the next tump, the one close to the church
-at Thruxton.
-
-The word hunger (a common place-name element) indicates, I think, a
-cutting through a bank, not the bank itself, as now surmised. There are
-cuttings at most fords, which permit the water to be seen from above
-and serve as sighting points. The cutting near Charing Cross, which
-gives the name to the present Hungerford foot-bridge, probably came
-down through Inigo Jones’ beautiful Water Gate.
-
-Mr. Codrington in his book on Roman Roads describes the method used
-by Roman engineers “well known to surveyors for laying out a straight
-line between extreme points not visible from each other, from two or
-more intermediate points from which the extreme points are visible. By
-shifting the intermediate points alternately all are brought to lie in
-a straight line.” This method was evidently used for all the leys.
-
-
-
-
- WATER SIGHTING POINTS.
-
-
-I have suggested how these might have developed from the tump, and
-shown where pond and tump were used together. Moats are a similar
-arrangement on a larger scale. The trackways go straight for the island
-part of the moat. It is not the least amazing part of this revelation
-that I find practically all the small horse or cattle ponds in field
-or homestead which are marked on a 6in. ordnance map have leys running
-through them, and that examination in dry seasons shows signs of the
-road passing through them. “And when we cleaned the pond out we found
-it cobbled at the bottom” is a frequent report made by a farmer. I show
-a photograph of one of these at Bridge Sollars, with the trench of the
-road beyond.
-
-A beautifully constructed causeway of even pitched stones is to be seen
-at the foot of Holmer Hill (Plate VI.). It has well defined edges, and
-lies at the bottom of a small sighting pond. In the crevices of its
-stones I found fragments of crude red pottery, with a bit of early
-(Anglo-Saxon) ornament, a bit of iron slag, and a bit of iron. This ley
-is sighted on the North Hill, Malvern.
-
-I cannot say that passengers walked through the bottom of these ponds
-(most of them have one shelving edge, with the opposite bank steep),
-but to this day an ancient road (at Harley Court, Hereford) does go
-through the bottom of a small pond, being sighted through the Cathedral.
-
-When there is a large central island on a moat I surmise early dwelling
-houses--a subject for spade research. There evidently came a wish for
-roads not running through the water, and a pair of ponds or lakes with
-a causeway between, such as we find at Holmer fish ponds, is frequently
-found on the map, and is the sure indication of an ancient trackway.
-Probably the square moats are later than the circular ones. I saw in
-the grass the track of a 15-foot road (probably Roman construction)
-making straight for the centre of Yarkhill Moat.
-
-Many ponds (as at Belmont, The Burcot, and adjoining Ledbury
-Churchyard) not known as moats are really such, their islands being
-sighting points.
-
-The causeway to the centre of the moat evidently suggested their use
-(many ages after they were made) as a defensive ring of the house of a
-rich owner, as at Brinsop, Badesley Clinton, Gillow, etc.
-
-I think that the word lake, now used for large sheets of water, was
-originally applied to small reflecting sighting ponds as well. The
-place names of Sutton Lakes, Withington Lakes, Letton Lakes, and Tumpy
-Lakes are explained by this theory.
-
-
-
-
- MARK STONES.
-
-
-These (Plate IX.) were used to mark the way. They were of all sizes,
-from the Whetstone on Hargest Ridge to a small stone not much larger
-than a football. Some were long stones or menhirs, but few remain
-upright in this district. I know of three lying fallen on leys, namely
-on the wall at the south gate of Madley Churchyard, near the inn at
-Bush Bank (cross road from Weobley), and used as a bridge over a ditch
-near the Field Farm on the Litley-Carrots path.
-
-I show photographs of a fine stone at Red Lion, Madley, having a flat
-top, and of the type which developed into market stones. The market
-stone at Grosmont Town Hall (on which the first market basket placed
-on market day paid no toll) is the successor of such a mark stone. Two
-marking stones (with ancient brick houses built partly on them) stand
-unnoticed in the short Wye Street, just over Wye Bridge at Hereford.
-They mark the Palace Ford, and a ley from Castle Hill to Hunderton.
-They are of the same peculiar stone (not “old red”) as at Madley,
-Colwall, etc.
-
-Wergin’s Stone (Plate X.) is a late type of mark stone which was the
-prototype of the churchyard and wayside crosses, all of which I think
-are on the sites of original mark stones, as I find leys passing
-through them.
-
-In studying such crosses, I was puzzled to find several (as at
-Vowchurch, Hentland, Capel-y-fin) with ancient rough unworked stones
-as a base. I am now certain that these bases are the original stones
-marking a ley. The Pedlar’s Cross near Pen-y-lan Farm above Llanigon
-(mentioned in Miss Jacob’s fine story, “The Sheep Stealers”) has been
-chipped into a rude suggestion of a cross without taking down, and a
-flat mark stone on which Archbishop Baldwin is said (by tradition) to
-have preached when on his tour with Giraldus in 1188, has had a cross
-inscribed on it. It stands close to St. Ishaw’s Well at Partricio.
-
-There is a striking marking stone on the Rhiw Wen route in the Black
-Mountains.
-
-Other stones on leys are:--White Stone, Withington (with original
-stone at the base of an inverted fragment of its successor--a wayside
-cross); Queen Stone, Huntsham, at Credenhill cross-roads, at the foot
-of Froom’s Hill, on the road near Turnaston Church, marking a ford at
-Bartonsham Farm, Hereford, and Crossways, Bollingham. The stone that
-all the Kings of England are crowned on is certainly a mark stone.
-
-
-
-
- SIGHTING STONES.
-
-
-Mark stones may be on one side of the track, as are the whitewashed
-stones which mark a coastguard’s cliff walk to-day. But there also
-appear to have been sighting points of stone exactly on the ley, so
-constructed as to indicate its direction.
-
-The Four Stones near Harpton, New Radnor, are four upright boulders
-(see Frontispiece) in an irregular quadrangle, and no one has explained
-their purpose.
-
-I took sighting lines over successive pairs of stones, five lines being
-possible, and although the work on the map is not yet completed, I can
-definitely say that the “Four Stones” are directing posts which point
-out at least two leys, proved by passing through other good points. The
-first goes to the highest point in Deerfold Forest (The Camp, 940ft.)
-in one direction, and in the other through The Folly and on the main
-road at Llanvihangel-nant-Melan, over Bryn-y-Maen Hill, here appearing
-to strike another “four stones,” and through Llansaintfraed in Elvel
-Church to some peak beyond.
-
-The second ley starts from Bach Hill (one of the highest parts of the
-Radnor Forest); through the Four Stones, dead on main road through
-Walton village, dead on main road past Eccles Green, through Upperton
-Farm and Kenchester Church, and dead on the present road which is the
-S.W. boundary of the Roman station of Magna; then going over the Wye
-through Breinton Church.
-
-Bitterley Churchyard Cross has a circular hole through its shaft at a
-convenient height for sighting. Mr. J. C. Mackay kindly had the exact
-direction of this taken for me by sighting compass. It is 28½° E. of
-Magnetic N., and this on the map exactly strikes Abdon Burf (or Barf),
-the high point (1,790ft.) of the Brown Clee. Southwards the line runs
-through Stoke Prior and Hope-under-Dinmore Churches, is confirmed in
-other ways, and goes over the Wye at Belmont House.
-
-Bitterley Cross is of 14th century date; it must be the successor of a
-sighting stone which in some way pointed the direction of the ley, and
-it suggests that sighting along a ley had not quite died out by the
-14th century.
-
-These two proved instances of sighting stones, together with the cases
-of stone rows on Dartmoor, and sighting columns on Sutton Walls, will
-give the clue to the hitherto unknown purpose of many important ancient
-stone monuments.
-
-It is probable that the flat face of a mark stone, as in Wergin’s Stone
-(Plate X.), pointed out a ley. There is a Dial Post near Tewkesbury
-which, with the Dial Carreg near Cwm-yoy, seems to denote the above
-purpose, and the last stone is an upright shaft of rectilinear shape
-like the supposed cross at Capel-y-fin (Plate X.).
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE VII.
-
- CAUSEWAYS.
-
- 1. Over Olchon Brook, Longtown.
-
- 2. To Centre of Pond, Ingestow, Ross.]
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE VIII.
-
- LEYS DISPLAYED.
-
- 1. Track Climbing Ridge, Llanthony Abbey.
-
- 2. Straight Wye-side Causeway, Bartonsham, Hereford.]
-
-
-
-
- TREES.
-
-
-I find that practically all the named historic trees (including Gospel
-Oaks) stand on leys. Such as King’s Acre Elm, Eastwood Oak, Great Oak
-at Eardisley, Oak near Moreton-on-Lugg Bridge, etc. Place names (which
-in my previous articles on Crosses I too hastily held to signify the
-site of a cross) also indicate trees as marks. Such are Lyde Cross
-Tree, Cross of the Tree at Deerfold, Cross Oak, Cross Ash, Cross Colloe
-(hazel tree cross), and two leys cross at these points. Actual trees
-are shown at the cross roads in two of the above in Taylor’s fine
-county map of 1757.
-
-The Oak in the horse-shoe meadow at Ross is on the ley passing over
-Over Ross (the place name indicates it) and Wilton Castle. The steep
-little street coming down to the river from the Swan Hotel is dead on
-this ley.
-
-Where a natural hill came under a ley it was often made a sighting
-point by the planting of a single tree, hence the numerous “one tree”
-hills, as at Backbury and on the Holmer Golf Links. All places called
-“The Grove” seem to be on a ley, and a small group of trees (as at
-Ladylift) was also used to mark a sighting point. Existing trees are
-probably successors of original ones.
-
-I see evidence that at one time such trees were called the “stock.” The
-site of the wayside cross at Winforton is known as the Stocks, and a
-marking tump in the lane for Bowley Town (or Court) has an ash on it,
-and is called by the same name, as are farms at Wellington, Almeley
-Woonton, etc. The highest point (a hill near the Three Elms on the
-“Roman” road from Kenchester to Lugg Bridge) is marked on the map as
-Bobblestock Hill. I have known it as Bubblestock, but have no doubt
-it was Baublestock, the tree or stock (we still buy apple stocks in
-the market) where men who peddled necklaces and other baubles met the
-buyers. To-day, if you ask in a shop whether they keep such goods, you
-will, perhaps, be told that they have a good stock of them.
-
-I think that the pole (Layster’s Pole, Yarpole, Lyepole, etc.) was a
-form of sighting point, lingering on to recent times as the May pole.
-
-Every considerable avenue of trees (as in parks of country seats) which
-I have tested has a ley down its centre.
-
-Monnington Walks, a Scotch Fir avenue a mile long (Plate XIII.), is
-sighted through Monnington Church and the Scar Rock, Brobury, which
-last can be seen central in the picture. I found the ancient track
-still on the ley at the Scar, and alongside appeared to be an enclosed
-camp with defences of a mild type, such as seem to be alongside many
-other sighting points, as Longtown and Bridge Sollars Churches. Other
-avenues on leys are at Trewyn (two), where the house, central with
-the Scotch Fir avenue, has been proved to be on a burial mound, at
-Llanvihangel Court, where tradition also asserts the house (central
-again) to be on a burial mound; at Oakley Park, Ludlow (The Duchess
-Walk); and at Longworth. A feature in most of these avenues is that,
-as far as present roads or tracks go, they “lead to nowhere,” and the
-discovery of the ley solves this puzzle. A striking instance can be
-seen from the Castle Mound at New Radnor, from which Harpton Court and
-Old Radnor Church are in line, and the eye looks up the centre of an
-avenue of trees climbing to the church. That beautiful avenue (half its
-beauty gone since two recent gales) with the ancient name Green Crise,
-which lines a public road out of Hereford, is on a ley which comes down
-the County College Road, over Putson Ford, and passes through Aconbury
-Church.
-
-One sure sign of a ley is a long straight strip of wood marked on the
-map, as from Franchise-stone to Litley, and towards Breinton Church.
-
-The word “park” had a meaning different to its present usage, but was
-probably connected with woodland, and certainly with leys, which pass
-through each of the innumerable Park Woods and Park Farms.
-
-The Scotch Fir or Pine is the tree which seems most characteristic of
-a ley, for a group of them are almost always (I notice) signs of a
-sighting point, as at Constable’s Firs, Hampstead Heath.
-
-At the present time it is impracticable to sight from point to point
-(especially on water points) on account of intervening trees. It is
-certain that for many centuries the sighting points were used, and
-that trees did not then intervene. This throws a doubt on the usual
-glib statement that ancient Britain was one dense forest. Perhaps the
-increase of trees was a cause of the decay of the system.
-
-
-
-
- CAMPS.
-
-
-I find that every camp seems to have several leys over it, and that
-these usually come over the earthworks, not the camp centre, as with
-moats. Also that camps almost always show signs of part of their
-earthworks being tumps. At Sutton Walls are four unmistakable tumps,
-in one of which an interment was found, and in another (Plate XIV.)
-the Club at its visit saw the bases of two masonry columns of Roman
-construction, the use of which seemed a mystery. I feel certain they
-were columns built by Roman surveyors for exact sighting.
-
-Standing on the highest part of Dinedor Camp earthworks, the towers of
-Hereford Cathedral and All Saints’ Church can be seen exactly in a line
-to the stand point.
-
-The camp plans in past Transactions show signs of tumps in most camps.
-It is impossible to assume that leys (sighted between two mountains)
-should in the scores of instances exactly fall upon the earthworks of
-camps previously built on sites selected solely for defence. The leys
-came first, and the present camp was then merely the site of two or
-more tumps. There came a period of organised raids and war, and where
-a group of tumps gave the first elements of defensive works, they were
-joined by earthworks into a complete enclosure for defence. Here again
-sighting settled the sites of camps. Hereford Castle Green with Hogg’s
-Mount the only remaining sighting tump, others (as at the Russian
-gun) being now levelled, is an example. Many groups of tumps, never
-developed into camps but sufficiently near to be so, are to be found on
-the map.
-
-I found Caplar Camp to have so many leys over it as to seem the Clapham
-Junction of ancient trackways in that district. It may be that in a few
-cases of lofty camps (as Croft Ambury and Herefordshire Beacon) they
-form terminals of sighting lines, but in almost all cases the leys pass
-over them.
-
-
-
-
- CHURCHES.
-
-
-These--if ancient--seem to be invariably on (not merely alongside)
-a ley, and in many cases are at the crossing of two leys, thus
-appropriating the sighting point to a new use. A ley often passes
-through a tump adjacent to the church, and a cross ley through both
-church and tump. In other cases a mark stone site became the churchyard
-cross, and a cross ley comes through both church and cross. In many
-cases one of the leys went through the tower only, and it is possible
-that tower and steeple were built to be used as sighting points,
-although on the other hand a large church did in fact block the road. I
-will make no surmises on these interesting points. The sighting system
-may have been in decay or the tracks abandoned when the churches were
-first built on the sighting points. I do not think it probable that
-leys were made to provide sites for churches. In almost every old town
-or village will be found examples of a church built on and blocking an
-ancient road although new roads (as at Weobley) are often made on one
-or both sides. I show examples of a number. Broad Street blocked by All
-Saints, Offa Street (a striking example) with St. Peter’s Tower dead on
-one end, and the Cathedral Tower dead on the other end. Other examples:
-Ledbury, Wigmore, Shrewsbury (Fish Street), Kington, and Madley, where
-tower, churchyard cross and village cross are on one ley, and tower,
-nave, chancel, and a mark stone in the village on a lengthwise ley.
-
-At Warwick a chapel is over a town gateway, and in Exeter an ancient
-lane is also allowed to continue as a tunnel under the altar of a small
-church, two curious instances of the right of way being continued and
-the desire of the clergy to use the site also attained. Kenderchurch
-is a striking instance of a church perched on the apex of a sighting
-mound, and in other districts I can think of Bren Tor (Dartmoor),
-Harrow, Churchdown (Gloucester), and the two St. Michael’s Mounts,
-these last obviously terminals of leys, as is St. Tecla’s Chapel out
-in the channel below Chepstow, the termination of the beach ley which
-gives its name to Beachley Village.
-
-In London St. Paul’s blocks the Watling Street and Ludgate Hill leys,
-and St. Clement Danes, St. Mary le Strand, and St. Martin’s in the
-Fields are all on another ley with subsidiary roads evolved on each
-side of the churches.
-
-
-
-
- CASTLES.
-
-
-Every castle in this district has a ley passing over it, and originated
-in a sighting tump, upon which the keep was afterwards built when some
-lord selected this as a desirable site for a defensive home. If a large
-tump, there were usually some excavations which were developed and
-extended into real defensive works.
-
-The word castle is applied to many tumps (as in Moccas Park), where no
-building has ever existed, and to farms (as Castle Farm, Madley), where
-there are signs of a tump, but merely a homestead round it.
-
-Where the word castle is part of a genuine place name, there was a
-sighting mound.
-
-
-
-
- TRADERS’ ROADS.
-
-
-Salt was an early necessity, and “Doomsday Book” records Herefordshire
-Manors owning salt pans at “Wick,” namely Droitwich. The salt ley
-for Hereford came from Droitwich through the White House, Suckley,
-Whitwick Manor, Whitestone, Withington (site of present chapel), White
-House, Tupsley, Hogg’s Mount, Hereford, and on to its terminal on
-Mynydd Ferddin Hill through Whitfield mansion. Another salt ley passes
-through Henwick and Rushwick (Worcester), over the Storridge pass
-through Whitman’s Wood, and ultimately gets to White Castle (Mon.),
-passing over the White Rocks at Garway. Similar leys pass through such
-places as Saltmarshe Castle, Whitewell House, the two White Crosses,
-Whitcliffe, Whiteway Head, the Wych pass over the Malverns. It is plain
-what the “white” man carried.
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE IX.
-
- MARK-STONES.
-
- 1. Red Lion, Madley.
-
- 2. Credenhill.
-
- 3. Wye Street, Hereford.
-
- 4. Bartonsham (see Plate VIII.).]
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE X.
-
- TRANSITION OF MARK-STONE TO CROSS.
-
- 1. Pedlars Cross, Llanigon.
-
- 2. Wergins Stone.
-
- 3. Churchyard Cross, Vowchurch (Inset, Hole in Shaft, Bitterley).
-
- 4. Churchyard Cross, Capel-y-Fin.]
-
-A knowledge of the ancient pottery in the Kiln Ground Wood at Whitney
-enables me to show the meaning of the numerous red banks, barns, and
-houses. A ley through this pottery is sighted on Newchurch Hill and
-passes through Redborough, Red Lay (a cottage on main road this side of
-Letton); the ley is then dead on two miles of the present high road as
-far as the Portway, and passing through the Home Farm, Garnons (where
-the ancient road exists), it ultimately reaches the little Red House,
-the old Tannery House at The Friars, Hereford; the ley goes on through
-Woolhope Church, but the small local potter had come to his limit and
-the reds cease on this road. Another ley from this pottery runs through
-the Red Gates and Eardisley Park.
-
-What the “black” man carried is indicated by the name still given to
-the smith who works in iron. Whoever carried to or from the local
-forges, whether it was ore, charcoal, or iron, would be black.
-
-The earliest trade (before metals were worked) must have been in
-flints, and as a man who wanted such would not have gone across
-Gloucestershire to the nearest chalk districts to fetch them, the
-flint chippers, or knappers, would come on the road to sell them. The
-sighting tumps called the Knap are common, and if I wanted to search
-for flint flakes, I should go to the base of the Knaps, their earliest
-market. Tin Hill, Tinker’s Hill, and Tinker’s Cross have a similar
-meaning.
-
-
-
-
- HEREFORD TRACKWAYS.
-
-
-More than a score come through Hereford. There are sighting tumps at
-Hogg’s Mount (Castle Green), Mouse Castle (also marked as Scots Hole),
-Gallows Tump (Belmont Road), Holmer Golf Links, Holmer Lane (top of old
-brick field), and an important one, Merryhill (in Haywood Forest), now
-marked as Beachwood. There also have been (now demolished) sighting
-tumps or points at Castle Hill, Palace Courtyard, Overbury (Aylestone
-Hill), The Knoll, Tupsley. And remains of one for the Castle ferry is
-on the line of earthwork bounding the Bishop’s Meadow.
-
-A riverside track sighted over Hogg’s Mount and Holmer Lane Tump is
-illustrated in Plate VIII.
-
-I have found trackways through the sites of each of the ancient
-churches. St. John’s Street extended passes exactly through the chancel
-of the chapel of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem at Widemarsh.
-Barrol Street through the site of St. Guthlac’s. In evening light a
-trackway can be seen from the Castle Green terrace, running through
-the large elm stump in the Bishop’s Meadow to certain railings on the
-river bank, it runs by Vaga House, Quay Street, site of Blackfriars
-Church, northwards to Brimfield Church, and southwards through a moat
-this side of the rectory at Upper Bullingham. Other straight trackways
-are visible through an orchard behind Kilburn (Aylestone Hill), on this
-year’s show-ground near the Three Elms, through Litley orchard, and
-descending the meadow on the north slope of Aylestone Hill to pass by
-the Burcott Pool, and on to Tenbury.
-
-
-
-
- TRADITIONAL WELLS.
-
-
-The ley brings to mind or discovers many of these, for a straight track
-went to or past all of them. There are Holy Wells at Dinedor, between
-Blakemere and Preston, and under Herrock Hill. As children, living
-close by, we used to call the Coldwell at Holmer the Holywell, and
-found our way by stepping stones to the ancient stone built well now
-destroyed. It was much like the Chamber well near the mill at Weobley.
-The Golden Well near Dorstone is on a ley running through Arthur’s
-Stone, the Gold Post (a mountain cot), and terminating in Pen-y-Beacon.
-The two “golds” on one track indicate a trader’s way. Leys go straight
-to, and not beyond, many wells in the Malvern ridge--St. Ann’s, Holy
-Well, Walms (there is a Walmer Street named from a ley in Hereford
-and a surname Walmsley), St. Pewtress, and one (whose name I do not
-find) near the Chase Inn, above Colwall, which village itself is the
-Cole’s--or magic man’s--well.
-
-I have photographed in Cornwall the pointed “beehive” stone structure
-covering a Holywell, surmounted by a cross; the whole obviously suited
-for a sighting point. Here and there, as at the Flintshire Holywell, a
-chapel has been built over the well. Our local example is at Marden,
-where the well, in the west end of the church, central with the nave
-(and the ley), is connected with the tradition of St. Ethelbert.
-
-There is an ancient well in Goodrich Churchyard, with a trackway
-obviously passing over it, but not through the church.
-
-
-
-
- PREVIOUS DATA.
-
-
-A number of observers have recorded confirmatory facts.
-
-Mr. G. H. Piper (“Woolhope Club Transactions, 1882,” p. 176) says: “A
-line drawn from the Skerrid-fawr (mountain) northwards to Arthur’s
-Stone would pass over the camp and the southernmost point of the
-Hatterill Hill, Old Castle, Longtown Castle, and Urishay and Snodhill
-Castles.”
-
-Mr. Thos. Codrington (“Roman Roads in Britain,” 1903) says: “Between
-the extreme points there are many straight pieces not quite in the same
-line, generally pointing to some landmark. There are several instances
-where a barrow or tumulus was the landmark, the road passing round it
-on nearing it. Silbury affords one example, and Brinklow, on the Foss,
-another.”
-
-Mr. James G. Wood (“Woolhope Club Transactions, 1910,” p. 146) says:
-“The origin and purposes of these tumps associated with Roman roads
-will well repay investigation. I have traced a line of such works
-across South Monmouthshire and West Gloucestershire from Caerleon
-through Caerwent into the Forest. All of these are so placed that each
-is in sight of the next in either direction. Again, we find that such
-roads were in many cases ranged or laid out in line with small camps or
-such tumuli--being, in fact, surveying stations.”
-
-The Rev. S. Baring-Gould (“Book of Dartmoor,” 1900) says: “The stone
-row is almost invariably associated with cairns and kistvaens. They
-do not always run parallel; they start from a cairn and end with a
-blocking stone set across the line.”
-
-The Rev. S. Bentley (“History of Bosbury,” 1891) says: “Under the cross
-in the churchyard, at its removal to its present site in 1796, a huge
-shapeless mass of rock weighing upwards of two tons was found. This
-stone now lies in the churchyard close to the tower on the south side.”
-Another writer refers to it as “this large unhewn mass of Silurian
-rock.”
-
-Mr. Hillaire Belloc (“The Old Road,” 1904), writing of the Pilgrim’s
-Way, says: “Now on its way from Winchester to Canterbury the Old Road
-passes, not in the mere proximity of, but right up against, thirteen
-ruined or existing churches.”
-
-Mr. Belloc also says: “The sacredness of wells is commingled all
-through Christendom with that of altars”; and giving Continental
-instances, also refers to the one under the altar at Winchester.
-
-
-
-
- ROMAN ROADS.
-
-
-The exact relation of Roman roads to the earlier leys is a matter for
-future investigation, but our co-member Mr. Jack is on the right lines
-when investigating the surface construction to find whether a road can
-be called Roman. It is not easy to realise that many British roads were
-as ancient to the Roman invaders as the Roman remains are to us.
-
-My general impressions from observed facts are that the Roman surveyors
-used the sighting system; that they utilized the old trackways,
-imposing greater width and their far superior road surface and
-foundations; also that working during the degeneration of the ley
-system, they did not appreciate the long distance primary points, but
-working on short distance hills and points their roads are not so
-consistent and individual. I find evidence that they established their
-stations on the original leys, and that these were then so numerous
-as to form the boundaries of stations or towns, and thus decide their
-polygonal shape. It is also probable that a great many Roman roads
-of which portions remain were never completed, although the sighting
-points of the original ley continue on the line.
-
-The road from Aymestry to Mortimer’s Cross comes down to the Wye in the
-cutting at Bridge Sollars.
-
-The “Roman” straight road from Leintwardine through Paytoe and Wigmore
-Moor (the subject of recent digging) continues as a ley through Lucton
-and Kingsland Churches.
-
-I consider the existing maps of Roman roads to have little value as
-being based on the assumption that there were no straight sighted
-roads before the Romans came, and that (quite illogically) such a road
-could go round corners, and had to follow the tracks over which some
-old writer had travelled. I find the so-called straight Roman roads,
-as from Kenchester to Lugg Bridge, to be really on several slightly
-diverging leys, three in this case.
-
-
-
-
- PLACE NAMES.
-
-
-The ley and its sighting points were earlier than homesteads, hamlets,
-or towns, and as the latter evolved on the tracks, place names
-naturally bear traces of their origin.
-
-It is no reflection on philologists that, not knowing of the ley, they
-have made misinterpretations, and have a huge mass of corrections
-to make. In particular they will find a past neglect in translating
-place names in the light of traders coming along the road and meeting
-the buyers at settled points. The man who brought the long-coveted
-gold ornaments might only come once a year, but to the women of the
-community the Gold Hill, Gold Post, or Golden Cross (roads), where they
-met him, or the Golden Valley, along which he came, would be likely to
-take their names from his wares. There are two of each of the above
-Gold place names in the county.
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE XI.
-
- CHURCHYARD CROSS.
-
- Bitterley.]
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE XII.
-
- TREE.
-
- Eastwood Oak, Tarrington.]
-
-The notes which follow must be taken rather as suggestions than as
-final conclusions.
-
-The common suffix--ley--indicates a ley of the character denoted by
-the first element in the name, and “meadow” is not, I think, the right
-interpretation. The numerous Leys Hills are not likely to be so called
-from meadows.
-
-The suffix--ton originated by a mark stone on the ley becoming the
-nucleus of a homestead, and perhaps later a town.
-
-The suffix--bury clearly indicates a mound which was a sighting tump.
-It is a strange development that these tumps were coveted both as
-places to be buried in and to live on. Mrs. Gillespie (who lived at
-Trewyn, Pandy, for 17 years) writes me: “I suppose you know that Trewyn
-was built on a burial mound,” and goes on to describe the discovery of
-a cist with human remains which they dug up under one of the rooms.
-I had told her how Trewyn was on two leys (therefore on a sighting
-point), one being down the avenue of ancient pine trees straight for
-Alt-y-Ynis.
-
-Barrow (another mound name) occurs at Cradley, Pembridge, and
-Wheelbarrow Castle, Leominster; Canon Bannister shows that Coldborough
-was formerly Colbarwe, and he also associates borough and bury as from
-the same root. A variation is berrow as in Broomsberrow. Just as the
-sighting stone--ton became the site of our modern town, so the mound
-evolved into the borough.
-
-Low--the universal name for the mound in Derbyshire--is not so common
-here. But Wormlow Tump, Ludlow, Warslow, and Bradlow indicate sighting
-points.
-
-Bury is used alone as the name for a tump, as in the many Bury Farms,
-or as at Ivington Bury. A farmer still calls the earth covered tump in
-which he winters his roots a bury. Towns like Ledbury first grew round
-a sighting mound.
-
-“Broom” occurs with great persistence on leys, with its variations brom
-and bram. Bromley and Bramley, Bromton and Bramton, Bromfield (where is
-the Old Field with a number of tumuli), Broomsgreen, Broomsberrow, and
-the many Broomy Hills are examples. It is not confined to one form of
-sighting point, and I surmise (from a faint line of evidence) that a
-component part of our modern broom was an essential working implement
-of the skilled ley man, and was continued as the staff of the mediæval
-pilgrim. Whether the plant broom was the original root word or a
-derivative I cannot say.
-
-Lady Lift (a hill-point mound) is on a ley with Lady Harbour Farm, and
-the prefix Lady is applied to court, grove, ridge, oak, and meadow in
-the county. The Lady Harbour of Hereford Cathedral is on one of the
-leys which form Church Street, and had the name before any church was
-built there. It might possibly indicate a woman’s shelter on the road.
-
-The suffix--tree, probably originated in a single tree planted as a
-sighting point, either as at “Cross of the Tree” in Deerfold Forest, or
-to mark the apex of a natural hill as illustrated in Plate XII. Webtree
-is on such a hill with two leys passing through it. Its name signifies
-that it is the spot where the webbe or weaver met his buyers. He
-travelled along the webbe-ley, and there are three Weobleys (formerly
-Webbeley) in the county, at Weobley Ash, and Weobley Cross, also the
-better known townlet. He also met others at a mark-stone now known as
-Webton. The surnames Webb, Webber, and Webster still survive.
-
-In the same way another first word element gave the place names (and
-surnames from them) of Bosley (Cattle-ley), Boston, Bosbury, Boswell,
-Bostock, and Boscastle. Again, Stanley, Stanwell, Stanton, Stanbury,
-and Stanbatch. And I have shown how the white (salt) man gave the first
-element to innumerable place names on his route. There is a Silver Tump
-and a Brass Knoll in the Olchon Valley, both proved sighting tumps.
-
-The names Bowley, Bowling Green (farm, also a quarry near Ewias
-Harold), Bolitree, Bolstone, Bollingham, Bal Mawr, Balls Cross,
-Ballgate, Bellgate, Bellimore, and Belmont, all seem akin to the
-rounded outline of an inverted bowl, or to boils, bowels, and belly of
-animal life, and indicate the rounded tump.
-
-The house at Bolitree is built on a tump with signs of a moat, and as I
-found a ley through Bollingham (house and chapel) I went there to find
-the bol, and there it was, a fine tump with an old summerhouse on its
-summit.
-
-Gate in a place name (as in Hill Gate, Three Gates, Ballgate, England’s
-Gate, Burley Gate, etc.) did not mean, as now, something which stopped
-a way (that was called a lid-yatt), but the way itself. It is much the
-same as the word pass. The same element (modified) is in such names as
-Gatley, Gatsford, Yatton, Symonds Yat, Woodyatt’s Cross.
-
-Lee Line and Timberline Wood are place names clearly describing leys.
-There is a Linton and a Linley at Stanford Bishop--the mark stone and
-the ley. I think that Lyonshall, Lynhales, Lion Farm, and Hobby Lyons
-are variations.
-
-Such names as Winslow, Preston Wynne, Winsley, and Winyard (Radnor
-Forest) indicate the road by which wine was brought. Totnor,
-Totteridge, Tothill, and Twt indicate (as Mr. J. G. Wood has pointed
-out) tumps, and they are all sighting tumps on leys. Mr. Wood (who has
-come very near discovering the ley) also--in Woolhope Transactions for
-1919--connects Titterstone, Clee Hill (Plate I.) with the word Tot or
-Toot. Tooting and Tottenham are London forms of the word. Rosemary
-Topping (English Bicknor) is a much prettier name for a sighting tump.
-
-Bur or Burl seems to be descriptive of some form of sighting point.
-Leys pass through Burley, Burlton, Burton (many of this name), Burford,
-and The Burcot; and there is a Burl Hill in Radnorshire.
-
-Although a ley ran from peak to peak there must have been an earlier
-termination to its useful part, or a still more restricted part used
-by traders. Hence--in London--Finsbury; Capel-y-fin in the Black
-Mountains; and Fine Street, near Letton, have probably the same
-meaning, which, however, seems to be locally more often expressed by
-the word end, as in New End (Canon Pyon), Red Wych End (Cowarne),
-Nupend, etc.
-
-As regards the place name element “broad” (also brad and bred), a ley
-passes through Broad Green (Orleton), The Broad, north of Leominster,
-Broadward, south of Leominster (dead on the main road at each of these
-two), and on to Broadlands at Aylestone Hill, Hereford. It was the
-road, not the place, which was broad, constructed for wheel traffic,
-for which the previous pack-horse tracks were too narrow. Mr. Allan
-Bright, of Barton Court, Colwall, wrote me, pointing out that a ley
-from the Wych through his house to Ledbury Church, also ran through a
-meadow of his called Broadley Meadow. Such names as Bradley, Bradlow,
-Bradford, Broadmoor, Broad Oak, and Bredwardine are thus explained.
-
-Probably most instances of the word elements, little and long, apply
-to the roads which pass through the places. Hereford is (no doubt
-correctly) said to mean “army road.” Little Hereford is not a small
-edition of the town, but of the road. Litley is the small ley, Longley
-is the long ley, and so with the stone, grove, land, and ford (there
-have been two Longfords). Long in old spelling was often lange; and
-little, lutel or luttel--these from Canon Bannister’s list. Hence come
-the (places and surnames) Langstone, Langford, Langland, Langton,
-Lutley, Luton. The two Leinthalls--Earles and Starkes--are seldom
-called by these second names locally, but are Little Leinthall and
-Long Leinthall respectively, the element leint (occurring also in
-Leintwardine) being I surmise derived from ley. Little Leynthale, to
-quote an old spelling, would be the meadow traversed by the short ley.
-
-
-
-
- DISCOVERY BY PLACE NAME.
-
-
-I have experienced this in several cases, and will detail one. A local
-antiquarian (Mr. W. Pilley) always maintained that there had been
-an ancient spring--the Bewell spring--close to Bewell House and the
-Hereford Brewery within the City. When I lived there with my father
-we knew nothing of it. But about a year ago the present owners in
-sinking a new deep well and building a new engine house, uncovered the
-following inscription cut in stone in the base of the brewery wall, but
-covered by a rockery in my time:--
-
- WELL, 71 FEET, 1724.
-
-I had always felt that the derivation given for the place name Bewell
-Street as Behind-the-wall Street was an error.
-
-There is a hill on the Canon Pyon road called Bewley or Bewdley Pitch.
-Solely on account of my surmise that the Bewley might lead to the
-Bew-well, I tried a line on the map and found a ley exactly falling on
-this “pitch” (or steep road) passing from the north through Bishops
-Moat (west of Bishops Castle), Meer Oak, Bucknell Church, Street Court,
-Stretford Churchyard, and Birley Churchyard, and exactly over the site
-of the well. Southwards over Palace Ford, Dinedor Camp, Caradock, Picts
-Cross, Hom Green Cross, Walford Church, Leys Hill, Speech House; there
-being numerous confirmations in fragments of road.
-
-
-
-
- THE LEY-MEN.
-
-
-The fact of the ley, with its highly skilled technical methods, being
-established, it must also be a fact that such work required skilled
-men, carefully trained. Men of knowledge they would be, and therefore
-men of power over the common people. And now comes surmise. Did they
-make their craft a mystery to others as ages rolled by. Were they
-a learned and priestly class, not admitted until completing a long
-training--as Cæsar describes the Druids. Or did they--as Diodorus and
-Strabo says of Druids--become also bards and soothsayers. Did they,
-as the ley decayed, degenerate into the witches of the middle ages.
-Folk-lore provides the witches with the power of riding through the air
-on a broomstick, the power of overlooking, that of the evil eye. They
-(in imagination) flew over the Broomy Hills and the Brom-leys. It may
-be that the ancient sighting methods were condemned as sorcery by the
-early Christian missionaries.
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE XIII.
-
- TREES.
-
- 1. A One-tree Hill, Llanvihangel-nant-Melan.
-
- 2. Scotch-Fir (or Scots Pine) Avenue, Monnington (See Plate
- XVII.).]
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE XIV.
-
- CAMPS.
-
- 1. One of the Four Mounds, Sutton Walls.
-
- 2. Herefordshire Beacon.]
-
-Were they the laity or lay-men of Beowulf?
-
-In later days our first English poet was one Layamon, and in his time
-were men called Ley-cester, Leye, and Ley-land.
-
-In the Oxford Dictionary is given the obsolete word cole as meaning
-in the 16th century a false magician, a juggler, and cole-prophet (or
-cold-prophet) with a similar meaning, and there is a cole-staff or
-cowl-staff also mentioned, which, although then meaning a carrying
-stick, was--I surmise--originally the working sighting staff of the
-cole-man, who was the magician of the ley. The word still survives in
-colporter, a walking seller of books, who carries his wares slung over
-his shoulder on a stick.
-
-We have in our district Coldman’s Hill, Coldstone Common, Coles Tump
-(Orcop), and Coles Mountain (Presteign). In other parts of England are
-Coley, Colbury, Colebatch, Colestock, Coleshill, Coleford, Coleham,
-Colchester, and Coleridge, which last has an alternate name Coldridge,
-confirming other instances of the intrusion of the d. I surmise Cold
-Harbour (Kentchurch) to have been Cole Harbour.
-
-Colmanswell in Ireland possesses to-day a “sacred” well, and this name,
-together with our own ancient Colewelle in Herefordshire, now altered
-to Colwall, is probably nearer the original root meaning than is the
-case of the three Coldwells at Holmer, Kingston, and English Bicknor.
-
-A Bishop’s name Colman is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and
-Cole is also a common surname to-day.
-
-There are other names for a ley-man indicated in the two Derbyshire
-place names, Totmans Low and Laidmans Low, the Low being a sighting
-mound.
-
-
-
-
- HINTS TO LEY HUNTERS.
-
-
-Keep to the discovery of lines through undoubted sighting points, as
-artificial mounds (including castle keeps), moats and islands in ponds
-or lakes. In practice churches can be treated as sighting points, but
-in some cases a ley passes through a tump or well close to the church.
-Avoid for a time the temptation of taking every bit of narrow straight
-road and extending it into a ley. Scrap every ley you think you have
-discovered if it does not pass through at least four undoubted sighting
-points exclusive of roads.
-
-You must use Government ordnance maps. One mile to the inch is the
-working scale. Other maps of two or four miles to the inch are quite
-useless, save for checking long leys.
-
-The (B) “Popular edition, mounted and folded in covers for the pocket,”
-is the most convenient for field work and is the cheapest, as it
-contains over double the area of the older (C) 18 x 12 edition; but
-I have found the latter (uncoloured, in flat sheets) necessary for
-transferring leys from one map to the next on drawing boards in the
-office.
-
-Maps cut in sections are useless for this exact work.
-
-About four drawing boards, a light 24-inch straight edge, a T square
-for pinning down the maps accurately to line with the boards, a
-moveable head T square to adjust to the angle of the ley, so as to
-transfer to the next map, and a box of the glass headed pins used by
-photographers (in addition to the usual drawing pins) are the minimum
-essentials for real work. A sighting compass for field work used in
-conjunction with a special divided quadrant on the moveable head of
-square are aids I have found valuable.
-
-Remember that the entire course of a ley can be found from two
-undoubted sighting points on it if marked on the map. Therefore stick a
-glass headed pin in these two points, apply the straight edge, and rule
-the line, pencil it at first, ink afterwards.
-
-When you get a “good ley” on the map, go over it in the field, and
-fragments and traces of the trackways will be found, always in straight
-lines, once seen recognised with greater ease in future.
-
-Where close detail is required, as in villages and towns, the 1´´scale
-is far too small, and the 6´´ scale is necessary. The angle of the ley
-is transferred to it from the 1´´ map with the aid of the moveable head
-square. Maps must be pinned square on the board by the T square passing
-through identical degree marks on the edges, latitude for leys running
-E. and W., but longitude for leys N. and S. The edges of the maps are
-not truly in line with the degree lines, and must not be the guide.
-
-Ley hunting gives a new zest to field rambles, and the knowledge of the
-straight ley provides new eyes to an eager observer.
-
-I have a mental vision of a Scout Master of the future, out ley hunting
-with the elder boys of his troup, instructing them as they look out
-from a high sighting point. “Now, Harold! if you only take that pole
-out of your eye, you will see better to pick out that distant moat that
-Cyril has in his eye. He’s got it, right enough, just a speck of light
-from the ring of water round the island. When I told you to use your
-pole as a sighting staff, I didn’t tell you to see nothing else. Now
-we have found the ley, I think we shall see a bit of the old track in
-that far grassy field this side the moat; it’s narrow and straight, and
-there are many who never find it because they look for a broad way like
-our present wheel tracks.”
-
-
-
-
- A FEW LEYS.
-
- (_Additional to others detailed in text and maps_).
-
-
-Colva Hill to Birdlip Hill, via Parton Cross, Breinton Camp and Ford,
-Red Hill, Holme Lacy House, Caplar Camp, Yatton Church, Moat and Camp
-beyond Newent, and dead on “Ermin Street” for five miles.
-
-Gwaun Ceste Hill to Brimpsfield Castle, via Michaelchurch, Eaton Camp,
-Perry Hill, Dinedor Cross, Tump, Brockhampton Old Church, Cross in
-Hand, Upton Court, The Conigree, Rudford Church, Gloucester Cathedral,
-Castle Hill, Witcombe Park, and Blacklains.
-
-Gwaun Ceste Hill to West Tump, via Colva Church, Brilley Green, The
-Scar Rock (Brobury), down Monnington Walks (central), Monnington
-Church, The Chantry, Perrystone, Mullhampton, Anthony’s Cross,
-Tibberton Court, Llanthony (Glos.) Abbey, and dead on a Gloucester
-street.
-
-Little Mountain (Westbrook) to St. Ann’s Well and Priory Church,
-Malvern, via Arthur’s Stone, Cross End, Moccas Church, Monnington
-Church, Credenhill (old) Court, Pipe and Lyde Church, and Beacon Hill.
-
-Pen-y-Beacon to North Hill, Malvern, via Sugwas Park, Ten Houses Pond
-(Plate VI.), Burcot Pool, White Stone Chapel, Shucknell Hill, Stretton
-Grandison Church, Moat at Birchend, and Mathon Church.
-
-Croft Ambury to Y-Fan-Drongarth (2,410 peak in Brecon Beacon group),
-via Hill Barn, Easthampton, Milton House, Court of Noke, Elsdon,
-Bollingham Chapel Tump, Clyro Church, Llowes Church, Bryn-Rhydd, and
-Slwch Camp, Brecon.
-
-Bailey Hill (Knighton) to May Hill (Longhope), via The Warden,
-Presteign, Golf Course Tump, Holmer, Holmer House, Holmer Lane Tump,
-Venn’s Lane, The Prospect and Tupsley Hospital Road, Main Street and
-Church, Fownhope, Caplar Camp, How Caple Church, Old Gore Cross, and
-Linton Church.
-
-
-
-
- ENDWORD.
-
-
-I close up my patchwork pages for this booklet, and a tired brain finds
-relief in two memories. The one of the day, just on half a century ago,
-when, a lad on a trader’s route for my father’s brewery, I pulled up my
-horse to look with wonder at the Four Stones, standing like sentinels
-in a field corner. Later in the same day, the steep slope of the
-Radnor Forest surmounted, came the first view of Castle Tomen at the
-summit of the Forest road, with its background of Wye and Irfon Valley
-(Breconshire) Mountains. And the note of unsatisfied wonder struck
-that day has lingered through nearly fifty years’ unusually intimate
-knowledge of our beautiful West Country border land, and I know now
-that my sub-conscious self had prepared the ground and worked at the
-problem I now see solved.
-
-The second memory is the vivid one of the rush of revelations in the
-gorgeous year of sunshine just finished. And I can scarcely realize
-that half the year had gone, the clear smoke-free distances of early
-summer a thing of the past, and midsummer day over, before I got the
-first clue. Once started, I found no halt in the sequence of new facts
-revealed by active search on the tracks.
-
-It is a mere framework for a new knowledge that I offer, but I know
-that it has solid foundations, and that good wholesome field work by
-others--for it may not be granted to me to do very much more--will fill
-in many gaps. That is why I write.
-
-POSTSCRIPT. In some districts--as Salisbury Plain and the
-Yorkshire Wolds--there are groups of adjacent barrows so numerous that
-it is probable that most of them were built as burial mounds only, not
-sighting mounds. This is not the case in the district investigated.
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE XV.
-
- CHURCH.
-
- Ledbury, the Spire sighted up Church Lane.]
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE XVI.
-
- CASTLE.
-
- Wigmore Castle, showing the sighting mound.]
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE XVII.
-
- CASTLE.
-
- Brampton Bryan Castle with Coxall Knoll on right.]
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE XVIII.
-
- HOUSE IN MOAT.
-
- Gillow.]
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE XIX.
-
- MAP OF TWO LEYS (A. & B.) AND PARTS OF C. & D. SEE CONTENTS TABLE
-
- (Based upon the Ordnance Survey with the sanction of the Controller
- of H.M. Stationery Office).]
-
- [Illustration:
-
- PLATE XX.
-
- MAP OF EIGHT LEYS THROUGH CAPEL-Y-TAIR-YWEN, HAY. SEE CONTENTS TABLE
-
- (Based upon the Ordnance Survey with the sanction of the Controller
- of H.M. Stationery Office).]
-
-
-
-
- INDEX.
-
-_Most of the Places indexed are in Herefordshire; those in adjoining
-counties are, if necessary, indicated by the initial of the county (as
-R. for Radnor) following the name._
-
-
- Abdon Burf (S.), 18
-
- Aberllynfi-Gaer (B.), 6
-
- Aconbury Church, 20
-
- Almeley Batch Twt, 6
-
- Almeley Woonton, 19
-
- Altars, 25
-
- Alt-y-ynis, 27
-
- Anthony’s Cross (G.), 33
-
- Arthur’s Stone, 6, 14, 24, 25, 33
-
- Assemblies, 10, 14
-
- Avenues (trees), 5, 20
-
- Avenues of Pines, 27
-
- Aylestone Hill, 24
-
- Aymestrey, 26
-
-
- Bach Hill (R.), 18
-
- Backbury, 19
-
- Badesley Clinton (Warwick.), 16
-
- Bailey Hill (R.), 34
-
- Baldwin (Archbishop), 17
-
- Bal-Mawr (B.), Balls Cross, Ballgate, 5, 28
-
- Bannister, Rev. A. J., 27, 30
-
- Baring-Gould, Rev. S., 25
-
- Barrow, 10, 27
-
- Barton Court, 29
-
- Bartonsham Farm, 5, 17
-
- Bassam, 5, 17
-
- Batch, 6, 10
-
- Beachley (G.), 22
-
- Beachwood Mound, 23
-
- Beacon Hill, 33
-
- Bellgate, Bellimore, Belmont, 28
-
- Belloc, Hillaire, 25
-
- Belmont, 16, 18
-
- Bentley, Rev. S., 25
-
- Beowulf, 31
-
- Bewell Spring, 30
-
- Bewley or Bewdley, 30
-
- Bible parallels, 33
-
- Bicknor Walks (G.), 12
-
- Birchend Moat, 33
-
- Birdlip Hill (G.), 33
-
- Birley Church, 30
-
- Birley Hill, 6
-
- Bitterley Cross (S.), 5
-
- Bitterley (S.), 4, 18
-
- Bishop’s Moat (S.), 30
-
- Black Darren, 4
-
- Black Hill, Olchon, 6
-
- Blackfriars, Hereford, 24
-
- Blacklains (G.), 33
-
- Black Mountains, 5, 17
-
- Black Traders road, 23
-
- Blackwardine, 9
-
- Bobblestock Hill, 19
-
- Bolitree, Bolstone, Bollingham, 28
-
- Bollingham, 17, 33
-
- Borough, 27
-
- Bosbury, Boston, Bosley, 28
-
- Bosbury Cross, 25
-
- Boswell (Staff.), Bostock (Staff.), Boscastle (Cornwall), 28
-
- Bowley Bowling Green, 19, 28
-
- Bowley Town, 14
-
- Boy Scouting, 33
-
- Bradley, Bradlow, 27, 29
-
- Bramley, 27
-
- Brampton Bryan, 6
-
- Bramton, 27
-
- Brass Knoll, 28
-
- Bredwardine, 29
-
- Breinton, 20, 33
-
- Bren Tor (Devon), 22
-
- Bridge Sollars, 16, 20, 26
-
- Brilley Green, 33
-
- Brinsop, 16
-
- Brimpsfield Castle (G.), 33
-
- Brinklow (Wilts.), 25
-
- Brimfield, 24
-
- Broad Green, 29
-
- Broad (The), 9, 29
-
- Broadlands, Broadley, Broadward, 29
-
- Brobury Scar, 5, 6, 19, 33
-
- Brockhampton Church, 33
-
- Bromton, 27
-
- Bromfield, 27
-
- Bromley (Kent), 27
-
- Broom, 27, 28
-
- Broomsgreen (G.), 27
-
- Broomsberrow (G.), 27
-
- Broomstick, 31
-
- Broomy Hill, 27, 31
-
- Brown Clee (S.), 18
-
- Bryn-y-Maen (R.), 18
-
- Bryn-Rhydd (R.), 33
-
- Bucknell Church (S.), 30
-
- Bullingham, 24
-
- Burcot Pool, 16, 24, 33
-
- Bury, 10
-
- Burial Mound, 14, 20, 27
-
- Bur, Burton, Burford, Burcot, 29
-
- Burl, Burley, Burlton, 29
-
- Burley Gate, 28
-
- Bury, 27
-
- Bush Bank, 17
-
- Byford Ford, 6
-
-
- Caerleon (M.), 25
-
- Caerwent (M.), 25
-
- Cairn, 10
-
- Camps--6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 20, 21, 22, 25, 33, 34
-
- Canterbury, 13, 25
-
- Capel-y-fin (B.), 5, 17, 18, 29
-
- Capel-y-tair-ywen (B.), 6
-
- Caplar Camp, 21, 33, 34
-
- Caradock, 30
-
- Castles--4, 6, 10, 11, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 31, 33
-
- Castle Hill (Glos.), 33
-
- Castle Hill (Hereford), 14, 23
-
- Castle Farms, 22
-
- Castle Tumps, 6
-
- Castle Tomen, 4, 34
-
- Causeways, 4, 5, 13, 16, 24
-
- Chamber Well, 24
-
- Chantry, Perrystone, 33
-
- Christian Era, 11
-
- Churchdown (G.), 22
-
- Churches--6, 7, 11, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 33,
- 34
-
- Cist, 27
-
- Clee Hill (S.), 4, 18
-
- Clifford, 6
-
- Clyro Church (R.), 33
-
- Codrington, Thos., 15, 25
-
- Colchester, Coleham, Coleridge, 31
-
- Coldborough, 27
-
- Cold Harbour, Coldridge, 31
-
- Coldman’s Hill, Coldstone, 31
-
- Coldwell, 24, 31
-
- Cole, Coleman, 24, 31
-
- Cole-prophet, Cold-prophet, 31
-
- Cole-staff, 31
-
- Coleshill, Colestock, Coleford, 31
-
- Colewelle, Colmanswell, 31
-
- Coles Tump, Coles Mountain, 31
-
- Coley, Colebury, Colebatch, 31
-
- Colva Church (R.), 33
-
- Colporter, 31
-
- Colva Hill (R.), 32
-
- Colwall, 24, 31
-
- Commerce, 10
-
- Concrete in Causeways, 4
-
- Conigree (G.), 33
-
- Constable’s Firs, 20
-
- Coronation Stone, 17
-
- Coxall Knoll, 6
-
- Court of Noke, 33
-
- Craft of the Ley-men, 30
-
- Cradley, 27
-
- Credenhill, 5, 17, 33
-
- Croft Ambury, 9, 21, 33
-
- Croft Lane, 9
-
- Crosses, 5, 17
-
- Cross Ash (M.), 19
-
- Cross Colloe, 19
-
- Cross End Farm, 6, 33
-
- Cross in Hand, 14, 33
-
- Cross Oak (S.), 19
-
- Cross Roads, 11, 13
-
- Cross of the Tree, 19, 28
-
- Cruger Castle (R.), 4
-
- Cullis, 15
-
- Cusop, 12
-
- Cuttings, 15
-
-
- D, intrusion of letter, 27
-
- Dancing in Circle, 14
-
- Dartmoor, 18, 25
-
- Deerfold Forest, 28
-
- Duchess Walk (S.), 20
-
- Dial Carreg (M.), 18
-
- Dial Post (W.), 18
-
- Didley, 4, 14
-
- Dinedor Camp, 12, 21, 30
-
- Dinedor Cross, 33
-
- Dinedor Holy Well, 24
-
- Dolmen, 14
-
- Domestic Camp, 20
-
- Doomsday Book, 22
-
- Dorstone Castle Tump, 6
-
- Droitwich (W.), 22
-
- Druids, 31
-
-
- Eardisland, 14
-
- Eardisley Park, 23
-
- Earthworks, 10, 11, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23
-
- Eastwood Oak, 5, 19
-
- Easthampton, 33
-
- Eaton Bishop Camp, 33
-
- Eccles Green, 18
-
- Elsdon, 33
-
- Enclosures, 9
-
- England’s Gate, 28
-
- Ermin Street (G.), 33
-
- Exeter, church over ley, 22
-
- Evolution of Moats, 4, 10, 15
-
- Evolution of Mounds, 4, 14
-
- Evolution of Crosses, 5, 11
-
-
- Felin-fach Moat (B.), 6
-
- Ferries, 12, 18, 23
-
- Field Work, 32, 33, 34
-
- Fine Street and Finsbury, 29
-
- Flansford, 15
-
- Flint Age, 10
-
- Flint Flakes, 9
-
- Flint Traders road, 23
-
- Folly, The (R.), 18
-
- Folk-mote, 14
-
- Fords--4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 15, 17, 29, 30, 33
-
- Forest, 20, 25
-
- Foss (Glos. and Wilts.), 25
-
- Four Stones (R.), 4, 18, 34
-
- Fownhope, 34
-
- Franchise-stone, 20
-
- Froom’s Hill, 17
-
-
- Gallows Tump, 23
-
- Garn, 10
-
- Garnons, 23
-
- Garron River, 4
-
- Gate, 28
-
- Gatley, 15, 28
-
- Gatsford, 28
-
- Gillespie, Mrs., 27
-
- Gillow, 6, 16
-
- Giraldus, 4, 17
-
- Glade, 12
-
- Gladestree (R.), 12
-
- Glascwm Hill (R.), 6
-
- Gloucester, 33
-
- Golden Cross, 27
-
- Golden Well, 24
-
- Gold Hill, 27
-
- Gold Post, 24, 27
-
- Gold Traders road, 24, 27
-
- Golden Valley, 27
-
- Goodrich, 24
-
- Gospel Oaks, 11, 19
-
- Great Oak, 19
-
- Green Crise, 20
-
- Grosmont (M.), 17
-
- Grove, 19
-
- Gwaun ceste Hill (R.), 33
-
-
- Hampstead Heath (Mid.), 20
-
- Hargest Ridge, 16
-
- Harrow (Mid.), 22
-
- Harpton Court (R.), 20
-
- Hatterill Hill, 25
-
- Hay Tump, 6
-
- Haywood Forest, 23
-
- Hell Moat, Sarnesfield, 6
-
- Hentland Cross, 17
-
- Henwick, 23
-
- Hereford, 5, 20, 23, 29
-
- ---- All Saints, 12, 21, 22
-
- ---- Barrol Street, 24
-
- ---- Bishop’s Meadow, 23
-
- ---- Broad Street, 22
-
- ---- Chapel of Hospitallers, 24
-
- ---- Cathedral, 4, 12, 16, 21, 22
-
- ---- Castle Green, 21, 23
-
- ---- Castle Hill, 17, 23
-
- ---- Church Street, 28
-
- ---- Harley Court, 16
-
- ---- The Knoll, 23
-
- ---- Offa Street, 12, 22
-
- ---- Overbury, 23
-
- ---- Palace, 23
-
- ---- Prospect, 34
-
- ---- St. John Street, 24
-
- ---- St. Peter’s, 22
-
- ---- Quay Street, 24
-
- ---- Venn’s Lane, 34
-
- ---- Wye Street, 17
-
- Herefordshire Beacon, 6, 21
-
- Herrock Hill, Holy Well, 24
-
- High Cullis, 15
-
- Hill Barn, 33
-
- Hill Gate, 28
-
- Hill-tracks, 7
-
- Hobby Lyons, 29
-
- Hoggs Mount, 5, 21, 22, 23, 24
-
- Holme Lacy House, 33
-
- Holmer, 5, 6, 16, 19, 24, 33, 34
-
- Holmer Tumps, 5, 23, 24, 34
-
- Hom Green Cross, 30
-
- Homesteads, 4, 11, 22, 26, 27
-
- Holy Wells, 6, 24
-
- Hope-under-Dinmore, 18
-
- Houghton Mound, 4
-
- How Caple Church, 34
-
- Hunderton, 17
-
- Hungerstone, 14, 15
-
- Hungerford (Mid.), 15
-
-
- Implements for mapping, 32
-
- Ingestone, 5, 13
-
- Iron, 16, 23
-
- Irfon Valley (B.), 34
-
- Island on moat, 15, 16
-
- Ivington Bury, 27
-
-
- Jack, G. H., 26
-
-
- Kenchester, 18, 19, 26
-
- Kenderchurch, 22
-
- Kiln Ground Wood, 23
-
- King’s Acre Elm, 19
-
- Kingsland Church, 26
-
- Kington Church, 22
-
- Kistvaens, 25
-
- Knap, 10, 23
-
- Knoll, 10, 23
-
-
- Lady Harbour, 28
-
- Ladylift--court, grove, meadow, 19, 28
-
- Laidmans Low, 31
-
- Laity, lay-men, 31
-
- Lakes, 15, 32
-
- Lane, 12
-
- Lay _see_ Ley
-
- Layamon, 31
-
- Laynes Farm (G.), 13
-
- Laysters Pole, 19
-
- Ledbury, 6, 16, 22, 27, 29
-
- Lee Line, 29
-
- Leintwardine, 26, 30
-
- Leinthall, 29
-
- Lemore, 4
-
- Letton Lakes, 16
-
- Leys, 3 to 34
-
- Leycester, 31
-
- Ley Farms, 12
-
- Leys Hill (G.), 27, 30
-
- Ley hunting--9, 11, 30, 31, 32, 33
-
- Ley-men, 10, 12, 14, 15, 30, 31, 33
-
- Leys, route of--6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30,
- 33, 34
-
- Lidyatt, 28
-
- Linton, 29, 34
-
- Linley, 29
-
- Lion Farm, 29
-
- Litley, 17, 20, 24, 29
-
- Little Hereford, 29
-
- Little Mountain (R.), 6
-
- ---- (Westbrook), 33
-
- Llanelieu Church (B.), 6
-
- Llanigon (B.), 5
-
- Llanigon Mound (B.), 6
-
- Llansaintfraed-in-Elvel (B.), 18
-
- Llanthony (Mon.), 5
-
- Llanthony (Glos.), 33
-
- Llanvihangel Court (M.), 20
-
- Llanvihangel Crucorney (M.), 4, 15
-
- Llanvihangel-nant-Melan (M.), 18
-
- Llowes Church (R.), 33
-
- Longtown, 4, 5, 13, 15, 20, 25
-
- Longford, 30
-
- Longworth, 20
-
- Low, 10, 27, 31
-
- Lucton Church, 26
-
- Ludgate Hill, London, 22
-
- Ludlow (S.), 27
-
- Lugg Bridge, 26
-
- Lyde Cross Tree, 19
-
- Lyepole, 19
-
- Lyonshall, Lynhales, 29
-
-
- Mackay, J. C., 18
-
- Madley, 5, 17, 22
-
- Maescoch, 6
-
- Magna, 18
-
- Magician, 31
-
- Mainstone Court, 12
-
- Malvern Hills, 6, 12, 15, 23, 24
-
- Malvern Priory Church, 6, 33
-
- Marden Church, 24
-
- Mark Stones--5, 10, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24
-
- Marstow, 4, 15
-
- Mathon Church, 33
-
- May Hill (G.), 34
-
- Maypole, 19
-
- Meer Oak (S.), 30
-
- Menhirs, 5, 17
-
- Merbach, 6
-
- Merry Hill, 14, 23
-
- Michaelchurch Escley, 6, 33
-
- Milton, 33
-
- Moats--4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 24, 33
-
- Moccas, 6, 22, 33
-
- Monnington Church, 6, 33
-
- Monnington Walks, 5, 6, 19, 33
-
- Monnow, 4, 13
-
- Moreton-on-Lugg, 19
-
- Mortimer’s Cross, 26
-
- Mote and Moat, 33
-
- Mouse Castle, Hay, 6
-
- Mouse Castle, Hereford, 23
-
- Mounds--4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26,
- 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34
-
- Mound--evolution of, 14
-
- Mound (various names for), 10
-
- Mountain Tracks, 5, 12
-
- Mullhampton, 33
-
- Mynydd-Brith Tump, 6
-
- Mynydd Ferddin Hill (B.), 23
-
-
- Neolithic Age, 10, 13
-
- Newchurch Hill (R.), 23
-
- New End, 29
-
- New Radnor Castle (R.), 20
-
- North Hill Malvern, 33
-
- Notches--sighting, 4, 15
-
- Nupend, 29
-
-
- Oakley Park (S.), 20
-
- Oaks, 5, 11, 19
-
- Olchon, 5, 12, 13, 28
-
- Oldcastle, 12, 25
-
- Old Gore Cross, 34
-
- Old Radnor Church, 20
-
- One Tree Hill, 5, 19
-
- Ordnance Maps, 11, 32
-
- Over Ross, 19
-
-
- Pains Castle Mound (R.), 6
-
- Palmer’s Court, 6
-
- Palace Ford, Hereford, 30
-
- Parallel Roads, 12
-
- Parks, 20
-
- Park Hall (S.), 4
-
- Partricio (M.), 17
-
- Parton Cross, 33
-
- Paytoe, 26
-
- Pedlar’s Cross, 5, 17
-
- Pen-y-Beacon, 4, 6, 24, 33
-
- Perry Hill, 33
-
- Perrystone, 33
-
- Philology, 26
-
- Picts Cross, 30
-
- Pilgrim’s Way, Kent, 13, 25
-
- Pilgrim’s Staff, 28
-
- Pine (Scotch or Scots), 20
-
- Piper, G. H., 25
-
- Pipe and Lyde Church, 33
-
- Ponds, 4, 5, 10, 11, 13, 14, 16, 32
-
- Portcullis, 15
-
- Pottery, Ancient, 5, 6, 23
-
- Precipice Walk, 12
-
- Preston-on-Wye Church, 6
-
- Preston Wynne, 15, 29
-
- Primary Peaks, 10
-
- Priory Wood, Clifford, 6
-
- Putson Ford, 20
-
-
- Queen’s Stone, 17
-
-
- Radnor Forest, 4, 34
-
- Redborough (R.), 23
-
- Red Gates, 23
-
- Red Hill, 33
-
- Red House, 23
-
- Red Ley, 12, 23
-
- Red Lion, 5, 17
-
- Red Pottery, 5, 6, 16
-
- Red Traders road, 5, 6, 23
-
- Red Wych End, 29
-
- Redley, 12
-
- Rhiw Wen, 17
-
- Rhiw, 5
-
- Rhos-goch Castle Tump (R.), 6
-
- Ridge-ways, 7
-
- Risbury Camp, 9
-
- Roman Roads, 9, 10, 13, 16, 25, 26
-
- Roman Stations, 9, 18, 26
-
- Roman Surveyors, 15, 18, 20, 21, 26
-
- Roofing Tile-stones, 5
-
- Rosemary Topping (G.), 29
-
- Ross, 19
-
- Rudford Church (G.), 33
-
- Rushwick (W.), 23
-
-
- Salt, 22
-
- Saltmarshe Castle, 23
-
- Saltways, 9, 22, 23
-
- Sarnesfield Moat, 6
-
- Scotch (or Scots) Fir, 5, 19, 20
-
- Scots Hole, 23
-
- Shelwick, 14
-
- Shrewsbury, 22
-
- Shucknell Hill, 6, 33
-
- Sighting Columns, 21
-
- Sighting Cuttings, 4, 15
-
- Sighting Methods, 9 to 34
-
- Sights, rifle, 9
-
- Sighting Stones, 4, 5, 6, 11, 17, 18, 21
-
- Silbury (Wilts.), 25
-
- Silver Tump, 28
-
- Sites and Sighting--11, 14, 16, 21, 22, 24
-
- Skirrid (M.), 4, 25
-
- Slwch Camp (B.), 33
-
- Snodhill Castle, 25
-
- Soothsayers, 31
-
- Speech House (G.), 30
-
- St. Ann’s Well (W.), 6, 24, 33
-
- St. Clement Danes, London, 22
-
- St. Ethelbert, 24
-
- St. Guthlac Church, 24
-
- St. Ishaw’s Well (M.), 17
-
- St. Martin’s in the Fields, 22
-
- St. Mary le Strand, 22
-
- St. Michael’s Mount, 22
-
- St. Paul’s Cathedral, 22
-
- St. Pewtress Well, 24
-
- St. Tecla’s Chapel (G.), 22
-
- Stanbatch, Stanbury, 28
-
- Stanton, Stanley, Stanwell, 28
-
- Stock, 14, 19
-
- Stoke Prior, 18
-
- Storridge, 23
-
- Stone Rows, 25
-
- Street Court, 30
-
- Stretford Church, 30
-
- Stretton Grandison, 9, 33
-
- Suffix, 27
-
- Sugwas Park, 33
-
- Surveyors, early, 14
-
- Surveyors, ley-men, 30
-
- Surveyors, Roman, 15, 21
-
- Sutton Lakes, 16
-
- Sutton Walls, 6, 18, 20
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-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_frontispiece" style="max-width: 419px">
- <img
- class="p0"
- src="images/i_frontispiece.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 center smaller">FRONTISPIECE.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">1. Castle Tomen, Radnor Forest.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">2. A Glade on a Ley.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">3. Four Stones, New Radnor.</p>
- </div>
-
-
-<h1>Early British<br />
-Trackways, Moats,<br />
-Mounds, Camps,<br />
-and Sites.</h1>
-
-
-<p class="p-left">A Lecture given to the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, at Hereford,
-September, 1921, by ALFRED WATKINS, Fellow and Progress Medallist
-(for 1910), of the Royal Photographic Society; Past President (1919)
-of the Woolhope Club. With illustrations by the Author, and much
-added matter.</p>
-
-
-<p class="center sm p4">1922:<br />
-<span class="smcap">Hereford</span>: THE WATKINS METER <span class="smcap">Co.</span><br />
-<span class="smcap">London</span>: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT &amp; <span class="smcap">Co., Ltd.</span>
-</p>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[3]</span></p>
-<h2>TABLE OF CONTENTS.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<table summary="contents" class="smaller">
- <tr>
- <th></th>
- <th class="pag">PAGE</th>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Table of Illustrations</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_4">4</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Foreword</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_7">7</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Introduction</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Outline of Conclusions</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_10">10</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Proof</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">The Ley</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Antiquity of the Ley</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Individuality of a Ley</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_13">13</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Mounds</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_14">14</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Earth-cuttings</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Water Sighting-points</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Mark-stones</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_16">16</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Sighting Stones</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_17">17</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Trees</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Camps</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_20">20</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Churches</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Castles</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Traders’ Roads</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_22">22</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Hereford Trackways</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Traditional Wells</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_24">24</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Previous Data</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_25">25</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Roman Roads</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Place Names</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Discovery by Place Name</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">The Ley-men</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Hints to Ley-hunters</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">A Few Leys</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_33">33</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Endword</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_34">34</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Index</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_35">35</a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td class="cht">Acknowledgments</td>
- <td class="pag"><a href="#Page_41">41</a></td>
- </tr>
-
-</table>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_4">[4]</span></p>
-
-<h2>TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS.</h2>
-</div>
-
-
-<div class="blockquot">
-
-<p><a href="#i_frontispiece">FRONTISPIECE</a>. Top. Castle Tomen, Radnor Forest, 1,250 feet
-above the sea, and is supposed to be the Cruger Castle of the
-Itinerary of Giraldus. Background. A glade on a ley. Bottom. The
-Four Stones, New Radnor, the easterly pair lined up for sighting
-over.</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_008fp">PLATE I</a>. PRIMARY PEAK. Titterstone Clee Hill, and Park Hall,
-Bitterley.</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_009bfp">PLATE II</a>. MOUNDS. 1, Tre-fedw, Pandy. The Skirrid, a primary
-peak, in distance. 2, Didley. With homestead alongside.</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_010bfp">PLATE III</a>. MOUND and MOAT. 1, Houghton Mound. 2, Lemore Moat.
-Note how slight is the dividing line between this type of mound
-and a moat.</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_011fp">PLATE IV</a>. THREE-POINT PROOFS. 1 (a telephotograph), Hereford
-Cathedral and Pen-y-Beacon. Here the camera stood on a known ley
-in gateway near top of Hafod Hill, and the line runs through
-pond at foot (marked by sheet of paper), tower of Cathedral, and
-the 20 mile distant mountain point or bluff. Another ley is seen
-crossing the meadow in a straight line just where “the lowing
-herd winds slowly o’er the lea.” 2, Tre-fedw Mound (see <a href="#i_009bfp">Plate II</a>.),
-shown at top of sighting line down present road to ancient
-Monnow ford (alongside present bridge) at Llanvihangel Mill.</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_014fp">PLATE V</a>. SIGHTING CUTTINGS (all telephotographs). 1, Notch with
-earthwork at Trewyn Camp above Pandy (Black Mountains). 2,
-Cutting through top of ridge at Marstow, a bridge now spans it,
-and the sighting line down to a ford on the Garron is indicated.
-The road beyond the cutting is on the ley. 3, Black Darren,
-Longtown (Black Mountains). This is taken from the Tan House,
-Longtown, and only 100 yards to right or left the notch begins
-to lessen and then disappear.</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_015bfp">PLATE VI</a>. CAUSEWAYS. 1, Through pond near Ten Houses (now Priory
-Terrace), Holmer. Note the unmistakable direction, confirmed on
-map. 2, Through the River Monnow, behind Tan House, Longtown. A
-piece of fine engineering, the below-stream edge of large stones
-embedded in grouting or concrete. This ley is over the notch in
-<a href="#i_014fp">Plate V</a>.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_5">[5]</span></p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_018fp">PLATE VII</a>. CAUSEWAYS. 1, Over a ford of Olchon Brook, Longtown.
-2, Ingestone, Ross. Through the “fold” and straight to the
-centre of the pond against the house. I cannot assign a period
-to any of these.</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_019fp">PLATE VIII</a>. LEYS DISPLAYED. 1, Rhiw (mountain track) south of
-Llanthony Abbey, Mon. This is sighted for Balmawr on the ridge,
-and shows that where possible even mountain side tracks were
-kept straight. Taken in evening light and shows (on left) the
-triple tracks down which it is surmised the tile stones for
-roofing the Abbey to have been slid from the quarry on the top.
-2, Stones at base of ancient Wye-side causeway at Bartonsham
-(formerly Bassam) Farm, Hereford City. The stones continue in a
-“wash-out” in bed of river to right, and the ley is sighted over
-tumps at Hoggs Mount and Holmer Lane. Note on bank to right the
-mark-stone for the ford (see <a href="#i_022dfp">Plate IX</a>.).</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_022dfp">PLATE IX</a>. MARK-STONES. 1, Red Lion, Madley. On a “red line”
-ley from the Whitney pottery. Note subsequent boundary stone
-alongside. 2, Credenhill. 3, Wye Street, Hereford, marking the
-Palace Ford; there are a pair of these stones. Bartonsham Farm,
-Hereford (see <a href="#i_019fp">Plate VIII</a>.).</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_023dfp">PLATE X</a>. TRANSITION OF MARK-STONE TO CROSS.</p>
-
-<p>1, Wergin’s Stone, Sutton. With flat face suited for sighting.
-A cavity for payments (or offerings) on the flat base. Early
-example of “shaft and base.” 2, Pedlars Cross above Llanigon. A
-menhir chipped into rude semblance of a cross. 3, In churchyard,
-Vowchurch, unworked base. A ley runs through it. Inset, Sighting
-hole in shaft of Bitterley Cross. 4, In Capel-y-fin churchyard
-(Black Mountains).</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_026fp">PLATE XI</a>. CHURCHYARD CROSS. Bitterley (see Inset <a href="#i_023dfp">Plate X</a>.).</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_027fp">PLATE XII</a>. TREE. Eastwood Oak, Tarrington, on a ley.</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_030bfp">PLATE XIII</a>. TREES. 1, A “One Tree Hill” near
-Llanvihangel-nant-Melan. 2, Monnington Walks, an avenue of
-Scotch Firs (Scots Pines) on a ley sighted on Scar Rock,
-Brobury, seen in distance. See <a href="#i_041fp_1">Map, Plate XIX</a>.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[6]</span></p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_031bfp">PLATE XIV</a>. CAMPS. 1, Sutton Walls. One of the sighting mounds,
-there being four, a pair at eastern end, a pair at this the
-western end. 2, Herefordshire Beacon. Winds Point to the left.</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_034fp">PLATE XV</a>. CHURCH. Church Lane, Ledbury. The detached tower of
-Ledbury Church is shown on the ley.</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_035fp">PLATE XVI</a>. CASTLE. Wigmore Castle. The keep is on a sighting
-mound, the ley passing also through the church, as is almost
-invariable where castle and church are near together.</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_038fp">PLATE XVII</a>. CASTLE. Brampton Bryan Castle (on a sighting mound)
-with Coxall Knoll, another mound, in the distance on the right.</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_039fp">PLATE XVIII</a>. HOUSE IN MOAT. Gillow.</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_041fp_1">PLATE XIX</a>. MAP. TWO LEYS. <span class="allsmcap">A</span>, Consecutive strips
-containing the straight ley from Glascwm Hill to Birley Hill
-<i>via</i> four mounds; Turret Tump, The Camp, Batch Twt,
-Almeley, Moat, Sarnesfield Coppice; and Weobley Church.
-<span class="allsmcap">B</span>, Little Mountain to Holy Well Malvern, through Moccas
-“Castle” Tump, Preston-on-Wye Church, Byford Ford, Holmer
-Church, Palmer’s Court, Moat, Shucknell, Walsopthorne. Portions
-of two interesting leys are also shown. <span class="allsmcap">C</span>, Scar Rock,
-Brobury, through Monnington Walks to Monnington Church (see
-<a href="#i_030bfp">Plate XIII</a>.); and <span class="allsmcap">D</span>, Little Mountain (Westbrook),
-through Arthur’s Stone (dolmen), Cross End, Moccas Church,
-Monnington Church, St. Ann’s Well, and Priory Church, Malvern.</p>
-
-<p><a href="#i_041fp_2">PLATE XX</a>. MAP. Portions of eight leys passing through
-Capel-y-tair-ywen (Chapel of the three yew trees), a chapel
-site, originally a mound, described in Woolhope Transactions,
-1898, p. 38, on the high plateau below the great northern
-escarpment of the Black Mountains. <span class="allsmcap">A</span>, Hay Tump (near
-church ford) to Pen-y-Beacon, on to Castle Tump, Rhos-goch.
-<span class="allsmcap">B</span>, Mouse Castle to Tumpa, passes through Maes-coch
-(red field), Priory Wood, and the ancient “red” pottery,
-Whitney. <span class="allsmcap">C</span>, Merbach to Llanelieu Church. <span class="allsmcap">D</span>,
-Mynydd-brith Tump to Talgarth Church. <span class="allsmcap">E</span>, Castle Tump,
-Dorstone, to Moat at Felin-fach. <span class="allsmcap">F</span>, Snodhill Castle
-to Aberllynfi Gaer; beyond Snodhill it passes to or through
-Holy Well, near Blakemere. <span class="allsmcap">G</span>, Michaelchurch Escley to
-Llanigon Mound. <span class="allsmcap">H</span>, Black Hill (Olchon) to Painscastle
-Mound.</p>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[7]</span></p>
-
-<h2>FOREWORD.<br />
-<span class="subhed"><i>To the Average Reader.</i></span></h2></div>
-
-<p>I judge that you pick up this booklet with much the same ideas on the
-subject that I had a few months ago. The antiquarians had not helped
-you or me very much, but had left us with vague ideas and many notes of
-interrogation.</p>
-
-<p>On early trackways they alternated between a misty appreciation
-of hill-tracks and ridgeways, and an implied depreciation of all
-track-makers before the Romans came. To learn the meaning of mounds
-they did not go beyond the child’s investigation of a drum, cut it
-open to see; and, if nothing was there, quite failed to profit by such
-valuable negative evidence. In perhaps one moat in five they found a
-dwelling, and argued finely on the defensive importance of a ring of
-water; but as to the other four, with no dwelling, and in unexplained
-positions, they closed their eyes.</p>
-
-<p>I do not know, dear reader, whether you will be as much astonished
-in reading the new facts which I disclose, and the deductions I feel
-obliged to make, as I have been in the disclosure. Frankly, if another
-person told them to me, I should want to verify before acceptance. And
-I try to aid you to verify. But do note this&mdash;that the important point
-in this booklet is the previously undiscovered string of facts, which
-make it necessary to revise former conclusions. My deductions may be
-faulty. But the facts are physical ones, and anyone can test in their
-own district whether moats, mounds and churches do not line up in
-straight lines with a hill peak at one end, and with bits of old tracks
-and antiquarian objects on the line.</p>
-
-<p>So please do not begin with the false&mdash;as being inapplicable&mdash;word
-“theory.” I had no theory when, out of what appeared to be a tangle,
-I got hold of the one right end of this string of facts, and found to
-my amazement that it unwound in orderly fashion and complete logical
-sequence.</p>
-
-<p>Make your own deductions when you have verified, and I have tried to
-help you.</p>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_008fp" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p0"
- src="images/i_008fp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate I.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">PRIMARY PEAK.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">Titterstone Clee Hill and Park Hall, Bitterley.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_009afp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_009bfp" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p0"
- src="images/i_009bfp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate II.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">MOUNDS.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">1. Tre-Fedw, Pandy. Skirrid in Distance.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">2. Didley.</p>
- </div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[9]</span></p>
-
-<p class="center xxl">EARLY BRITISH TRACKWAYS.</p>
-</div>
-
-<p class="center xl">MOATS, MOUNDS, CAMPS AND SITES.</p>
-
-<h2>INTRODUCTION.</h2>
-
-
-<p>I have read of a lad who, idly probing a hill-side rabbit hole, saw
-a gleam of gold, then more, and in short had found a royal treasury.
-And he could not show all to those interested, but only samples, and
-he made mistakes in describing the dates and workmanship of the coins,
-vessels and jewels. But the treasure was there all the same.</p>
-
-<p>I knew nothing on June 30th last of what I now communicate, and had no
-theories. A visit to Blackwardine led me to note on the map a straight
-line starting from Croft Ambury, lying on parts of Croft Lane past
-the Broad, over hill points, through Blackwardine, over Risbury Camp,
-and through the high ground at Stretton Grandison, where I surmise
-a Roman station. I followed up the clue of sighting from hill top,
-unhampered by other theories, found it yielding astounding results in
-all districts, the straight lines to my amazement passing over and over
-again through the same class of objects, which I soon found to be (or
-to have been) practical sighting points.</p>
-
-<p>For the sake of clearness I will give an outline of the whole method
-before furnishing proofs and examples.</p>
-
-<p>It is necessary first to clear the mind of present ideas of roads from
-town to town, or with enclosed hedges, also of any assumption that
-orderly road planning was introduced by the Romans, and that my paper
-is to explain the Roman roads.</p>
-
-<p>Presume a primitive people, with few or no enclosures, wanting a few
-necessities (as salt, flint flakes, and, later on, metals) only to
-be had from a distance. The shortest way to such a distant point was
-a straight line, the human way of attaining a straight line is by
-sighting, and accordingly all these early trackways were straight, and
-laid out in much the same way that a marksman gets the back and fore
-sights of his rifle in line with the target.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[10]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">OUTLINE OF CONCLUSIONS.</h2>
-
-
-<p>During a long period, the limits of which remain to be discovered,
-but apparently from the Neolithic (later flint) age on past the Roman
-occupation into a period of decay, all trackways were in straight lines
-marked out by experts on a sighting system.</p>
-
-<p>Such sighting lines were (in earlier examples) from natural mountain
-peak to mountain peak, usually not less than 1,000 ft., in this
-district, probably lower heights in flat districts, such points being
-terminals.</p>
-
-<p>Such a sighting line (or ley) would be useless unless some further
-marking points on the lower ground between were made. Therefore
-secondary sighting points were made, easily to be seen by the ordinary
-user standing at the preceding sighting point, all being planned on one
-straight line. These secondary, and artificial, sighting points still
-remain in many cases, either as originally made, or modified to other
-uses, and a large number are marked on maps, and are the basis of my
-discovery.</p>
-
-<p>They were constructed either of earth, water or stone, trees being also
-planted on the line. Sacred wells were sometimes terminals in the line,
-and sometimes included as secondary points.</p>
-
-<p>Between the sighting points the trackway ran straight, except in cases
-of physical impossibility, but did not of necessity go as far as the
-primary hill tops.</p>
-
-<p>Earth sighting points were chiefly on higher ground, and now bear the
-name of tump, tumulus, mound, twt, castle, bury, cairn, garn, tomen,
-low, barrow, knoll, knap, moat and camp. Another form of earth sighting
-point was in the form of a notch or cutting in a bank or mountain ridge
-which had to be crossed by the sighting line.</p>
-
-<p>Water sighting points seem to have evolved from the excavations made
-for the tumps or moats. Almost all are on low ground, to form a point
-or ring of reflection from higher ground, and are now known as moats
-and ponds.</p>
-
-<p>Stone sighting or marking points were natural (not dressed) blocks.</p>
-
-<p>Sighting lines were (in earliest examples) up to 50 or 60 miles in
-length, later on rather shorter, down to a few miles.</p>
-
-<p>Sighting points were used for commerce and for assemblies of the
-people.</p>
-
- <div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_010afp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_010bfp" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_010bfp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate III.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">MOUND AND MOAT.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">1. Houghton Mound.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">2. Lemore Moat.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_011fp" style="max-width: 517px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_011fp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate IV.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">THREE-POINT PROOFS.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small hangingindent">1. Sighting Pond, Hereford Cathedral, Pen-y-Beacon.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small hangingindent">2. Ford at Llanvihangel Mill, Road, Tre-Fedw Mound. (See <a href="#i_009bfp">Plate II.</a>)</p>
- </div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[11]</span></p>
-
-<p>When troublesome times came and stronger defences wanted, the groups of
-two or three sighting tumps which came near together (especially on the
-top of a hill) often had defensive earthworks added to make a fortified
-enclosed camp.</p>
-
-<p>These trackways of successive ages grew so thick on the ground as to
-vie in number with present day roads and by-ways.</p>
-
-<p>All forms of sighting points became objects of interest, superstition,
-and genuine veneration, and as such were utilized on the introduction
-of Christianity.</p>
-
-<p>Practically all ancient churches are on the site of these sighting
-points (tumps or stones), usually at a cross of tracks, and there is
-evidence that in some cases the churchyard cross is on the exact spot
-of the ancient sighting or marking stone.</p>
-
-<p>In time, homesteads clustered round the sighting points, especially the
-ponds.</p>
-
-<p>The moats and tumps were often adopted in after ages as sites for the
-defensive houses or castles of wealthy owners.</p>
-
-<p>Hundreds of place names give support to these propositions.</p>
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<h2 class="smaller">PROOF.</h2>
-
-
-<p>The facts I have discovered, which lead up to the conclusions, can be
-verified for the most part on an inch to mile ordnance map with aid of
-a straight edge.</p>
-
-<p>Taking all the earthworks mentioned, add to them all ancient churches,
-all moats and ponds, all castles (even castle farms), all wayside
-crosses, all cross roads or junctions which bear a place name, all
-ancient stones bearing a name, all traditional trees (such as gospel
-oaks), marked on maps, and all legendary wells. Make a small ring
-round each on a map. Stick a steel pin on the site of an undoubted
-sighting point, place a straight edge against it, and move it round
-until several (not less than four) of the objects named and marked come
-exactly in line.</p>
-
-<p>You will then find on that line fragments here and there of ancient
-roads and footpaths, also small bits of modern roads conforming to it.
-Extend the line into adjoining maps, and you will find new sighting
-points on it, and it will usually terminate at both ends in a natural
-hill or mountain peak, or sometimes (in the later examples) in a
-legendary well or other objective.</p>
-
-<p>If you travel along the actual sighting line you will find fragments of
-the road showing as a straight trench in untilled land, although<span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[12]</span> these
-are few and far between, as the plough obliterates it all. The line
-usually crosses a river at a known ford or ferry. Sighting tumps not
-marked on the map are also to be found.</p>
-
-<p>Two specific proofs are illustrated in <a href="#i_011fp">Plate IV</a>. and explained in the
-Table of Illustrations. Also from the highest point of the earthworks
-of Dinedor Camp the spire of All Saints’ Church can be seen precisely
-between the pinnacles of Hereford Cathedral, thus showing a sighting
-tump and two churches on one ley. The Offa Street example (see under
-Churches) is another three-point proof.</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">THE LEY.</h2>
-
-
-<p>The sighting line was called the ley or lay. Numbers of farms and
-places on sighting lines bear this first name, viz., the Ley Farms,
-Weobley, Grafton, Stoke Edith, and many other places. Wyaston Leys,
-Monmouth, Tumpey Ley and Red Lay, near Letton, and Redley in Cusop
-parish.</p>
-
-<p>There were cleverly planned high level mountain tracks which, although
-on an average sighting line, could not (being on the side of a mountain
-ridge) keep straight, but took a serpentine course, in round the cwms,
-and out round the headlands. But viewed edgeways they are a straight
-line (see <a href="#i_019fp">Plate VIII</a>.) as keeping a uniform level or slope. Such are
-found high on the Malvern ridge, the road (on three leys) through
-Oldcastle to Blaen Olchon, the lovely Bicknor Walks near Symonds Yat,
-the Precipice Walk near Dolgelly.</p>
-
-<p>There are signs of parallel trackways quite close together, whether one
-to take the place of an older one I do not know. And between Malvern
-Wells and Hanley Swan are three symmetrical triangular woods (see Map,
-<a href="#i_041fp_1">Plate XIX</a>.), which I find indicate parallel roads, one-sixth mile
-apart, running northwards, and with a collecting road here at right
-angles, which comes over the ridge and through Mainstone Court. There
-are six of these equidistant parallel roads.</p>
-
-<p>The fact of the ley is embedded in the rural mind. A country man in
-directing your path will invariably bring in the now misleading, but
-once correct, “keep straight on.” It was once absolutely necessary to
-“keep straight on” in the ley, for if you did not you would be de-leyed
-on your journey. This is not said as a pun, but as in some succeeding
-sentences, to point out the place of the ley in the evolution of our
-language.</p>
-
-<p>Where the ley laid in a wood became a glade (see Frontispiece). We
-came through one over Worsell Wood in a Club excursion on our way to
-Gladestree. Where the ley had lain for a time often became<span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[13]</span> a lane.
-This last noun became a verb used in the 18th century enclosure acts,
-where ground was “laned out.” Where it was so laned out it became land.
-There is a Laynes Farm near Huntley.</p>
-
-<p>It is still a common phrase to go out to see “the lay (or lie) of the
-land.”</p>
-
-<p>The trackways are chiefly 6 feet 6 in. to 9 feet wide. I illustrate two
-pitched causeways at Longtown, a fine one through the Monnow near the
-Tan House, and the other close to a ford over Olchon Brook (<a href="#i_015bfp">Plate VI</a>.).
-Another through the farm yard at Ingestone (Ross) going to the centre
-of the sighting pond (<a href="#i_018fp">Plate VII</a>.).</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">ANTIQUITY OF THE LEY.</h2>
-
-
-<p>The word “ancient” covers a vast period. If&mdash;as I have proved&mdash;the
-tumps or burys are sighting tumps, excavations also prove that they
-usually date back to the Neolithic age, which, according to Mr. Ault’s
-recent “Early Life in Britain,” cannot be later than 2,000 B.C., and
-may be 4,000 B.C. A prehistoric trackway might, therefore, be planned
-and made more than three thousand years before the Old Road (which is a
-route rather than a road) was devised or evolved&mdash;as Mr. Belloc so well
-describes&mdash;as a Pilgrim’s Way from Winchester to Canterbury.</p>
-
-<p>I have found that the persistent things down the ages are not the
-courses of the roads or tracks, but their sighting points, and
-that cross roads with a place name are such. Place names are also
-persistent, some of them going back to prehistoric times, but others
-evidently mediæval. But the real dating of the leys and when the system
-fell into decay is for future investigation.</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">INDIVIDUALITY OF A LEY.</h2>
-
-
-<p>Each ley or track was as separate and distinct from other leys as each
-animal or tree is an organism distinct from other animals or trees.
-As they crossed each other, no doubt users often transferred from one
-to the other at the crossing, and struck out in an altered direction,
-hence the place name element “turn.” But the way thus travelled was a
-route, not a road. It is an absurdity to speak of a sighted road having
-branches, or bending. Each individual track was “a long lane that has
-no turning.”</p>
-
-<p>Previous writers, treating, say, of Roman or of mediæval roads, not
-knowing of the existence of the ley, assume that they are speaking of
-original primary structures, when they are only describing a route
-evolved from a number of the leys I describe, retaining the sighted
-structure in the case of Roman roads, but losing most of it by mediæval
-times.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[14]</span></p>
-
-<p>Many leys acquired in after ages individual names from the use they
-were put to, and such names were transferred to the sighting points.</p>
-
-<p>I find in several cases a group of leys with sighting points passing
-quite close to, and taking no notice of, quite a distinct group of leys
-with other sighting points, the two sets being either of two different
-periods, or part of separate systems made by different sets of ley-men
-living in different districts.</p>
-
-<p>A most surprising fact is the enormous number of leys.</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">MOUNDS.</h2>
-
-
-<p>The mounds whose many names I have mentioned are artificial. I do not
-question the fact that they were often used as burial mounds, and
-perhaps even built with that end in view; but the straight leys on
-which I find practically all in this district line up (in connection
-with other sighting points) prove their primary purpose to be sighting
-tumps. Arthur’s Stone, a dolmen, which was probably the core of a
-burial tump, is on two sighting lines.</p>
-
-<p>I find various stages of evolution of the tump. The small tump at a
-road junction for the local road construction, examples at Cross in
-Hand, Belmont, Hungerstone, Shelwick old Turnpike, near Bowley Town
-(called the Stocks). With most of these the pond from which the earth
-was dug adjoins. When much larger tumps were wanted the trench of
-earth to make them was dug in the form of a ring, and a moated tump
-resulted, as at Eardisland (with water), Pont Hendre, Longtown (dry).
-The water in these excavations proved to be splendid sighting points
-by reflection from higher ground, and the moats with no tump but a
-flat plateau within a ring of water evolved. Many tumps on banks, as
-at Tre-Fedw, near Pandy, show no excavations. Many tumps were at the
-junction of leys, showing the technical skill of the early surveyors,
-who must have moved a temporary sighting point on one ley until it fell
-in the line of a second ley. A sighting tump always commanded a fine,
-clear view in at least two directions, and in after ages was coveted
-as a dwelling spot. At Didley is an instance of the simple homestead
-against it. Thus sighting produced the sites, this being only one of
-many instances where the record of the ley is embedded in the English
-tongue. The generic name of Merry Hill applied (as near Hereford) to
-many tumps gives a clue to their use as assembly points for recreation,
-confirmed by folk lore and surviving customs of dancing in a circle
-with hands linked. The folk-mote was held at a tump with a dry moat, so
-admirably adapted for seating.</p>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_014fp" style="max-width: 750px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_014fp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate V.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">SIGHTING CUTTINGS.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">1. Trewyn Camp, Black Mountains.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">2. Marstow, Road Spanned by Bridge.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">3. Black Darren, Longtown.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_015afp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_015bfp" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p0"
- src="images/i_015bfp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate VI.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">CAUSEWAYS.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">1. Through Pond, Ten Houses, Holmer.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">2. Through River Monnow, Longtown.</p>
- </div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[15]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">EARTH CUTTINGS.</h2>
-
-
-<p>Where a mountain ridge stood in the path of a ley, the surveyor,
-instead of building a tump on the ridge as a sighting point, often cut
-a trench at the right angle and in the path of the ley. This shows as
-a notch against the sky and makes a most efficient sighting point from
-below. I have counted eight such artificial notches in the mountain
-ridge when on the road from Llanvihangel Crucorney to Longtown. Each
-notch can only be seen on the line of sight, and disappears when a
-quarter of a mile right or left. They are sometimes emphasised (as at
-Trewyn Camp) by an earth work thrown up on one side. The Wych on the
-Malvern ridge is an instance.</p>
-
-<p>The two fine gaps near Flansford (Goodrich) and Marstow (<a href="#i_014fp">Plate V</a>.),
-both with bridges over them, are also ancient sighting cuttings.</p>
-
-<p>The sighting cuttings were also used in passing over banks in lower
-ground. Cullis is one of the names for such an earth cutting, as
-Portcullis between Withington and Preston Wynne, and High Cullis above
-Gatley Park, recently visited by the Club.</p>
-
-<p>There is a very neat example of such a cutting at Hungerstone, near
-Allensmore, where the cutting in the bank allows the ley to be sighted
-on to a pond on its way to the next tump, the one close to the church
-at Thruxton.</p>
-
-<p>The word hunger (a common place-name element) indicates, I think, a
-cutting through a bank, not the bank itself, as now surmised. There are
-cuttings at most fords, which permit the water to be seen from above
-and serve as sighting points. The cutting near Charing Cross, which
-gives the name to the present Hungerford foot-bridge, probably came
-down through Inigo Jones’ beautiful Water Gate.</p>
-
-<p>Mr. Codrington in his book on Roman Roads describes the method used
-by Roman engineers “well known to surveyors for laying out a straight
-line between extreme points not visible from each other, from two or
-more intermediate points from which the extreme points are visible. By
-shifting the intermediate points alternately all are brought to lie in
-a straight line.” This method was evidently used for all the leys.</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">WATER SIGHTING POINTS.</h2>
-
-
-<p>I have suggested how these might have developed from the tump, and
-shown where pond and tump were used together. Moats are a similar
-arrangement on a larger scale. The trackways go straight for the island
-part of the moat. It is not the least amazing part of<span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[16]</span> this revelation
-that I find practically all the small horse or cattle ponds in field
-or homestead which are marked on a 6in. ordnance map have leys running
-through them, and that examination in dry seasons shows signs of the
-road passing through them. “And when we cleaned the pond out we found
-it cobbled at the bottom” is a frequent report made by a farmer. I show
-a photograph of one of these at Bridge Sollars, with the trench of the
-road beyond.</p>
-
-<p>A beautifully constructed causeway of even pitched stones is to be seen
-at the foot of Holmer Hill (<a href="#i_015bfp">Plate VI</a>.). It has well defined edges, and
-lies at the bottom of a small sighting pond. In the crevices of its
-stones I found fragments of crude red pottery, with a bit of early
-(Anglo-Saxon) ornament, a bit of iron slag, and a bit of iron. This ley
-is sighted on the North Hill, Malvern.</p>
-
-<p>I cannot say that passengers walked through the bottom of these ponds
-(most of them have one shelving edge, with the opposite bank steep),
-but to this day an ancient road (at Harley Court, Hereford) does go
-through the bottom of a small pond, being sighted through the Cathedral.</p>
-
-<p>When there is a large central island on a moat I surmise early dwelling
-houses&mdash;a subject for spade research. There evidently came a wish for
-roads not running through the water, and a pair of ponds or lakes with
-a causeway between, such as we find at Holmer fish ponds, is frequently
-found on the map, and is the sure indication of an ancient trackway.
-Probably the square moats are later than the circular ones. I saw in
-the grass the track of a 15-foot road (probably Roman construction)
-making straight for the centre of Yarkhill Moat.</p>
-
-<p>Many ponds (as at Belmont, The Burcot, and adjoining Ledbury
-Churchyard) not known as moats are really such, their islands being
-sighting points.</p>
-
-<p>The causeway to the centre of the moat evidently suggested their use
-(many ages after they were made) as a defensive ring of the house of a
-rich owner, as at Brinsop, Badesley Clinton, Gillow, etc.</p>
-
-<p>I think that the word lake, now used for large sheets of water, was
-originally applied to small reflecting sighting ponds as well. The
-place names of Sutton Lakes, Withington Lakes, Letton Lakes, and Tumpy
-Lakes are explained by this theory.</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">MARK STONES.</h2>
-
-
-<p>These (<a href="#i_022dfp">Plate IX</a>.) were used to mark the way. They were of all sizes,
-from the Whetstone on Hargest Ridge to a small stone not<span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[17]</span> much larger
-than a football. Some were long stones or menhirs, but few remain
-upright in this district. I know of three lying fallen on leys, namely
-on the wall at the south gate of Madley Churchyard, near the inn at
-Bush Bank (cross road from Weobley), and used as a bridge over a ditch
-near the Field Farm on the Litley-Carrots path.</p>
-
-<p>I show photographs of a fine stone at Red Lion, Madley, having a flat
-top, and of the type which developed into market stones. The market
-stone at Grosmont Town Hall (on which the first market basket placed
-on market day paid no toll) is the successor of such a mark stone. Two
-marking stones (with ancient brick houses built partly on them) stand
-unnoticed in the short Wye Street, just over Wye Bridge at Hereford.
-They mark the Palace Ford, and a ley from Castle Hill to Hunderton.
-They are of the same peculiar stone (not “old red”) as at Madley,
-Colwall, etc.</p>
-
-<p>Wergin’s Stone (<a href="#i_023dfp">Plate X</a>.) is a late type of mark stone which was the
-prototype of the churchyard and wayside crosses, all of which I think
-are on the sites of original mark stones, as I find leys passing
-through them.</p>
-
-<p>In studying such crosses, I was puzzled to find several (as at
-Vowchurch, Hentland, Capel-y-fin) with ancient rough unworked stones
-as a base. I am now certain that these bases are the original stones
-marking a ley. The Pedlar’s Cross near Pen-y-lan Farm above Llanigon
-(mentioned in Miss Jacob’s fine story, “The Sheep Stealers”) has been
-chipped into a rude suggestion of a cross without taking down, and a
-flat mark stone on which Archbishop Baldwin is said (by tradition) to
-have preached when on his tour with Giraldus in 1188, has had a cross
-inscribed on it. It stands close to St. Ishaw’s Well at Partricio.</p>
-
-<p>There is a striking marking stone on the Rhiw Wen route in the Black
-Mountains.</p>
-
-<p>Other stones on leys are:&mdash;White Stone, Withington (with original
-stone at the base of an inverted fragment of its successor&mdash;a wayside
-cross); Queen Stone, Huntsham, at Credenhill cross-roads, at the foot
-of Froom’s Hill, on the road near Turnaston Church, marking a ford at
-Bartonsham Farm, Hereford, and Crossways, Bollingham. The stone that
-all the Kings of England are crowned on is certainly a mark stone.</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">SIGHTING STONES.</h2>
-
-
-<p>Mark stones may be on one side of the track, as are the whitewashed
-stones which mark a coastguard’s cliff walk to-day. But there also
-appear to have been sighting points of stone exactly on the ley, so
-constructed as to indicate its direction.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[18]</span></p>
-
-<p>The Four Stones near Harpton, New Radnor, are four upright boulders
-(see Frontispiece) in an irregular quadrangle, and no one has explained
-their purpose.</p>
-
-<p>I took sighting lines over successive pairs of stones, five lines being
-possible, and although the work on the map is not yet completed, I can
-definitely say that the “Four Stones” are directing posts which point
-out at least two leys, proved by passing through other good points. The
-first goes to the highest point in Deerfold Forest (The Camp, 940ft.)
-in one direction, and in the other through The Folly and on the main
-road at Llanvihangel-nant-Melan, over Bryn-y-Maen Hill, here appearing
-to strike another “four stones,” and through Llansaintfraed in Elvel
-Church to some peak beyond.</p>
-
-<p>The second ley starts from Bach Hill (one of the highest parts of the
-Radnor Forest); through the Four Stones, dead on main road through
-Walton village, dead on main road past Eccles Green, through Upperton
-Farm and Kenchester Church, and dead on the present road which is the
-S.W. boundary of the Roman station of Magna; then going over the Wye
-through Breinton Church.</p>
-
-<p>Bitterley Churchyard Cross has a circular hole through its shaft at a
-convenient height for sighting. Mr. J. C. Mackay kindly had the exact
-direction of this taken for me by sighting compass. It is 28½° E. of
-Magnetic N., and this on the map exactly strikes Abdon Burf (or Barf),
-the high point (1,790ft.) of the Brown Clee. Southwards the line runs
-through Stoke Prior and Hope-under-Dinmore Churches, is confirmed in
-other ways, and goes over the Wye at Belmont House.</p>
-
-<p>Bitterley Cross is of 14th century date; it must be the successor of a
-sighting stone which in some way pointed the direction of the ley, and
-it suggests that sighting along a ley had not quite died out by the
-14th century.</p>
-
-<p>These two proved instances of sighting stones, together with the cases
-of stone rows on Dartmoor, and sighting columns on Sutton Walls, will
-give the clue to the hitherto unknown purpose of many important ancient
-stone monuments.</p>
-
-<p>It is probable that the flat face of a mark stone, as in Wergin’s Stone
-(<a href="#i_023dfp">Plate X</a>.), pointed out a ley. There is a Dial Post near Tewkesbury
-which, with the Dial Carreg near Cwm-yoy, seems to denote the above
-purpose, and the last stone is an upright shaft of rectilinear shape
-like the supposed cross at Capel-y-fin (<a href="#i_023dfp">Plate X</a>.).</p>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_018fp" style="max-width: 750px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_018fp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate VII.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">CAUSEWAYS.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">1. Over Olchon Brook, Longtown.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">2. To Centre of Pond, Ingestow, Ross.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_019afp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_019fp" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p0"
- src="images/i_019bfp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate VIII.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">LEYS DISPLAYED.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">1. Track Climbing Ridge, Llanthony Abbey.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small hangingindent">2. Straight Wye-side Causeway, Bartonsham, Hereford.</p>
- </div>
-
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[19]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller" id="TREES">TREES.</h2>
-
-
-<p>I find that practically all the named historic trees (including Gospel
-Oaks) stand on leys. Such as King’s Acre Elm, Eastwood Oak, Great Oak
-at Eardisley, Oak near Moreton-on-Lugg Bridge, etc. Place names (which
-in my previous articles on Crosses I too hastily held to signify the
-site of a cross) also indicate trees as marks. Such are Lyde Cross
-Tree, Cross of the Tree at Deerfold, Cross Oak, Cross Ash, Cross Colloe
-(hazel tree cross), and two leys cross at these points. Actual trees
-are shown at the cross roads in two of the above in Taylor’s fine
-county map of 1757.</p>
-
-<p>The Oak in the horse-shoe meadow at Ross is on the ley passing over
-Over Ross (the place name indicates it) and Wilton Castle. The steep
-little street coming down to the river from the Swan Hotel is dead on
-this ley.</p>
-
-<p>Where a natural hill came under a ley it was often made a sighting
-point by the planting of a single tree, hence the numerous “one tree”
-hills, as at Backbury and on the Holmer Golf Links. All places called
-“The Grove” seem to be on a ley, and a small group of trees (as at
-Ladylift) was also used to mark a sighting point. Existing trees are
-probably successors of original ones.</p>
-
-<p>I see evidence that at one time such trees were called the “stock.” The
-site of the wayside cross at Winforton is known as the Stocks, and a
-marking tump in the lane for Bowley Town (or Court) has an ash on it,
-and is called by the same name, as are farms at Wellington, Almeley
-Woonton, etc. The highest point (a hill near the Three Elms on the
-“Roman” road from Kenchester to Lugg Bridge) is marked on the map as
-Bobblestock Hill. I have known it as Bubblestock, but have no doubt
-it was Baublestock, the tree or stock (we still buy apple stocks in
-the market) where men who peddled necklaces and other baubles met the
-buyers. To-day, if you ask in a shop whether they keep such goods, you
-will, perhaps, be told that they have a good stock of them.</p>
-
-<p>I think that the pole (Layster’s Pole, Yarpole, Lyepole, etc.) was a
-form of sighting point, lingering on to recent times as the May pole.</p>
-
-<p>Every considerable avenue of trees (as in parks of country seats) which
-I have tested has a ley down its centre.</p>
-
-<p>Monnington Walks, a Scotch Fir avenue a mile long (<a href="#i_030bfp">Plate XIII</a>.), is
-sighted through Monnington Church and the Scar Rock, Brobury,<span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[20]</span> which
-last can be seen central in the picture. I found the ancient track
-still on the ley at the Scar, and alongside appeared to be an enclosed
-camp with defences of a mild type, such as seem to be alongside many
-other sighting points, as Longtown and Bridge Sollars Churches. Other
-avenues on leys are at Trewyn (two), where the house, central with
-the Scotch Fir avenue, has been proved to be on a burial mound, at
-Llanvihangel Court, where tradition also asserts the house (central
-again) to be on a burial mound; at Oakley Park, Ludlow (The Duchess
-Walk); and at Longworth. A feature in most of these avenues is that,
-as far as present roads or tracks go, they “lead to nowhere,” and the
-discovery of the ley solves this puzzle. A striking instance can be
-seen from the Castle Mound at New Radnor, from which Harpton Court and
-Old Radnor Church are in line, and the eye looks up the centre of an
-avenue of trees climbing to the church. That beautiful avenue (half its
-beauty gone since two recent gales) with the ancient name Green Crise,
-which lines a public road out of Hereford, is on a ley which comes down
-the County College Road, over Putson Ford, and passes through Aconbury
-Church.</p>
-
-<p>One sure sign of a ley is a long straight strip of wood marked on the
-map, as from Franchise-stone to Litley, and towards Breinton Church.</p>
-
-<p>The word “park” had a meaning different to its present usage, but was
-probably connected with woodland, and certainly with leys, which pass
-through each of the innumerable Park Woods and Park Farms.</p>
-
-<p>The Scotch Fir or Pine is the tree which seems most characteristic of
-a ley, for a group of them are almost always (I notice) signs of a
-sighting point, as at Constable’s Firs, Hampstead Heath.</p>
-
-<p>At the present time it is impracticable to sight from point to point
-(especially on water points) on account of intervening trees. It is
-certain that for many centuries the sighting points were used, and
-that trees did not then intervene. This throws a doubt on the usual
-glib statement that ancient Britain was one dense forest. Perhaps the
-increase of trees was a cause of the decay of the system.</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">CAMPS.</h2>
-
-
-<p>I find that every camp seems to have several leys over it, and that
-these usually come over the earthworks, not the camp centre, as with
-moats. Also that camps almost always show signs of part of their
-earthworks being tumps. At Sutton Walls are four unmistakable tumps,
-in one of which an interment was found, and in another<span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[21]</span> (<a href="#i_031bfp">Plate XIV</a>.)
-the Club at its visit saw the bases of two masonry columns of Roman
-construction, the use of which seemed a mystery. I feel certain they
-were columns built by Roman surveyors for exact sighting.</p>
-
-<p>Standing on the highest part of Dinedor Camp earthworks, the towers of
-Hereford Cathedral and All Saints’ Church can be seen exactly in a line
-to the stand point.</p>
-
-<p>The camp plans in past Transactions show signs of tumps in most camps.
-It is impossible to assume that leys (sighted between two mountains)
-should in the scores of instances exactly fall upon the earthworks of
-camps previously built on sites selected solely for defence. The leys
-came first, and the present camp was then merely the site of two or
-more tumps. There came a period of organised raids and war, and where
-a group of tumps gave the first elements of defensive works, they were
-joined by earthworks into a complete enclosure for defence. Here again
-sighting settled the sites of camps. Hereford Castle Green with Hogg’s
-Mount the only remaining sighting tump, others (as at the Russian
-gun) being now levelled, is an example. Many groups of tumps, never
-developed into camps but sufficiently near to be so, are to be found on
-the map.</p>
-
-<p>I found Caplar Camp to have so many leys over it as to seem the Clapham
-Junction of ancient trackways in that district. It may be that in a few
-cases of lofty camps (as Croft Ambury and Herefordshire Beacon) they
-form terminals of sighting lines, but in almost all cases the leys pass
-over them.</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">CHURCHES.</h2>
-
-
-<p>These&mdash;if ancient&mdash;seem to be invariably on (not merely alongside)
-a ley, and in many cases are at the crossing of two leys, thus
-appropriating the sighting point to a new use. A ley often passes
-through a tump adjacent to the church, and a cross ley through both
-church and tump. In other cases a mark stone site became the churchyard
-cross, and a cross ley comes through both church and cross. In many
-cases one of the leys went through the tower only, and it is possible
-that tower and steeple were built to be used as sighting points,
-although on the other hand a large church did in fact block the road. I
-will make no surmises on these interesting points. The sighting system
-may have been in decay or the tracks abandoned when the churches were
-first built on the sighting points. I do not think it probable that
-leys were made to provide sites for churches.<span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[22]</span> In almost every old town
-or village will be found examples of a church built on and blocking an
-ancient road although new roads (as at Weobley) are often made on one
-or both sides. I show examples of a number. Broad Street blocked by All
-Saints, Offa Street (a striking example) with St. Peter’s Tower dead on
-one end, and the Cathedral Tower dead on the other end. Other examples:
-Ledbury, Wigmore, Shrewsbury (Fish Street), Kington, and Madley, where
-tower, churchyard cross and village cross are on one ley, and tower,
-nave, chancel, and a mark stone in the village on a lengthwise ley.</p>
-
-<p>At Warwick a chapel is over a town gateway, and in Exeter an ancient
-lane is also allowed to continue as a tunnel under the altar of a small
-church, two curious instances of the right of way being continued and
-the desire of the clergy to use the site also attained. Kenderchurch
-is a striking instance of a church perched on the apex of a sighting
-mound, and in other districts I can think of Bren Tor (Dartmoor),
-Harrow, Churchdown (Gloucester), and the two St. Michael’s Mounts,
-these last obviously terminals of leys, as is St. Tecla’s Chapel out
-in the channel below Chepstow, the termination of the beach ley which
-gives its name to Beachley Village.</p>
-
-<p>In London St. Paul’s blocks the Watling Street and Ludgate Hill leys,
-and St. Clement Danes, St. Mary le Strand, and St. Martin’s in the
-Fields are all on another ley with subsidiary roads evolved on each
-side of the churches.</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">CASTLES.</h2>
-
-<p>Every castle in this district has a ley passing over it, and originated
-in a sighting tump, upon which the keep was afterwards built when some
-lord selected this as a desirable site for a defensive home. If a large
-tump, there were usually some excavations which were developed and
-extended into real defensive works.</p>
-
-<p>The word castle is applied to many tumps (as in Moccas Park), where no
-building has ever existed, and to farms (as Castle Farm, Madley), where
-there are signs of a tump, but merely a homestead round it.</p>
-
-<p>Where the word castle is part of a genuine place name, there was a
-sighting mound.</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">TRADERS’ ROADS.</h2>
-
-<p>Salt was an early necessity, and “Doomsday Book” records Herefordshire
-Manors owning salt pans at “Wick,” namely Droitwich. The salt ley
-for Hereford came from Droitwich through the White House, Suckley,
-Whitwick Manor, Whitestone, Withington (site of present chapel), White
-House, Tupsley, Hogg’s Mount, Hereford, and on to its terminal on
-Mynydd Ferddin Hill through Whitfield mansion. Another salt ley passes
-through Henwick and Rushwick (Worcester), over the Storridge pass
-through Whitman’s Wood, and ultimately gets to White Castle (Mon.),
-passing over the White Rocks at Garway. Similar leys pass through such
-places as Saltmarshe Castle, Whitewell House, the two White Crosses,
-Whitcliffe, Whiteway Head, the Wych pass over the Malverns. It is plain
-what the “white” man carried.</p>
-
- <div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_022afp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p0"
- src="images/i_022bfp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p0"
- src="images/i_022cfp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_022dfp" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p0"
- src="images/i_022dfp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate IX.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">MARK-STONES.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">1. Red Lion, Madley.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">2. Credenhill.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">3. Wye Street, Hereford.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">4. Bartonsham (see <a href="#i_019fp">Plate VIII</a>.).</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_023afp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter">
- <img
- class="p0"
- src="images/i_023bfp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter">
- <img
- class="p0"
- src="images/i_023cfp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_023dfp" style="max-width: 403px">
- <img
- class="p0"
- src="images/i_023dfp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate X.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">TRANSITION OF MARK-STONE TO CROSS.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">1. Pedlars Cross, Llanigon.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">2. Wergins Stone.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small hangingindent">3. Churchyard Cross, Vowchurch (Inset, Hole in Shaft, Bitterley).</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">4. Churchyard Cross, Capel-y-Fin.</p>
- </div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[23]</span></p>
-
-<p>A knowledge of the ancient pottery in the Kiln Ground Wood at Whitney
-enables me to show the meaning of the numerous red banks, barns, and
-houses. A ley through this pottery is sighted on Newchurch Hill and
-passes through Redborough, Red Lay (a cottage on main road this side of
-Letton); the ley is then dead on two miles of the present high road as
-far as the Portway, and passing through the Home Farm, Garnons (where
-the ancient road exists), it ultimately reaches the little Red House,
-the old Tannery House at The Friars, Hereford; the ley goes on through
-Woolhope Church, but the small local potter had come to his limit and
-the reds cease on this road. Another ley from this pottery runs through
-the Red Gates and Eardisley Park.</p>
-
-<p>What the “black” man carried is indicated by the name still given to
-the smith who works in iron. Whoever carried to or from the local
-forges, whether it was ore, charcoal, or iron, would be black.</p>
-
-<p>The earliest trade (before metals were worked) must have been in
-flints, and as a man who wanted such would not have gone across
-Gloucestershire to the nearest chalk districts to fetch them, the
-flint chippers, or knappers, would come on the road to sell them. The
-sighting tumps called the Knap are common, and if I wanted to search
-for flint flakes, I should go to the base of the Knaps, their earliest
-market. Tin Hill, Tinker’s Hill, and Tinker’s Cross have a similar
-meaning.</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">HEREFORD TRACKWAYS.</h2>
-
-<p>More than a score come through Hereford. There are sighting tumps at
-Hogg’s Mount (Castle Green), Mouse Castle (also marked as Scots Hole),
-Gallows Tump (Belmont Road), Holmer Golf Links, Holmer Lane (top of old
-brick field), and an important one, Merryhill (in Haywood Forest), now
-marked as Beachwood. There also have been (now demolished) sighting
-tumps or points at Castle Hill, Palace Courtyard, Overbury (Aylestone
-Hill), The Knoll, Tupsley. And remains of one for the Castle ferry is
-on the line of earthwork bounding the Bishop’s Meadow.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[24]</span></p>
-
-<p>A riverside track sighted over Hogg’s Mount and Holmer Lane Tump is
-illustrated in <a href="#i_019fp">Plate VIII</a>.</p>
-
-<p>I have found trackways through the sites of each of the ancient
-churches. St. John’s Street extended passes exactly through the chancel
-of the chapel of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem at Widemarsh.
-Barrol Street through the site of St. Guthlac’s. In evening light a
-trackway can be seen from the Castle Green terrace, running through
-the large elm stump in the Bishop’s Meadow to certain railings on the
-river bank, it runs by Vaga House, Quay Street, site of Blackfriars
-Church, northwards to Brimfield Church, and southwards through a moat
-this side of the rectory at Upper Bullingham. Other straight trackways
-are visible through an orchard behind Kilburn (Aylestone Hill), on this
-year’s show-ground near the Three Elms, through Litley orchard, and
-descending the meadow on the north slope of Aylestone Hill to pass by
-the Burcott Pool, and on to Tenbury.</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">TRADITIONAL WELLS.</h2>
-
-<p>The ley brings to mind or discovers many of these, for a straight track
-went to or past all of them. There are Holy Wells at Dinedor, between
-Blakemere and Preston, and under Herrock Hill. As children, living
-close by, we used to call the Coldwell at Holmer the Holywell, and
-found our way by stepping stones to the ancient stone built well now
-destroyed. It was much like the Chamber well near the mill at Weobley.
-The Golden Well near Dorstone is on a ley running through Arthur’s
-Stone, the Gold Post (a mountain cot), and terminating in Pen-y-Beacon.
-The two “golds” on one track indicate a trader’s way. Leys go straight
-to, and not beyond, many wells in the Malvern ridge&mdash;St. Ann’s, Holy
-Well, Walms (there is a Walmer Street named from a ley in Hereford
-and a surname Walmsley), St. Pewtress, and one (whose name I do not
-find) near the Chase Inn, above Colwall, which village itself is the
-Cole’s&mdash;or magic man’s&mdash;well.</p>
-
-<p>I have photographed in Cornwall the pointed “beehive” stone structure
-covering a Holywell, surmounted by a cross; the whole obviously suited
-for a sighting point. Here and there, as at the Flintshire Holywell, a
-chapel has been built over the well. Our local example is at Marden,
-where the well, in the west end of the church, central with the nave
-(and the ley), is connected with the tradition of St. Ethelbert.</p>
-
-<p>There is an ancient well in Goodrich Churchyard, with a trackway
-obviously passing over it, but not through the church.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[25]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">PREVIOUS DATA.</h2>
-
-<p>A number of observers have recorded confirmatory facts.</p>
-
-<p>Mr. G. H. Piper (“Woolhope Club Transactions, 1882,” p. 176) says: “A
-line drawn from the Skerrid-fawr (mountain) northwards to Arthur’s
-Stone would pass over the camp and the southernmost point of the
-Hatterill Hill, Old Castle, Longtown Castle, and Urishay and Snodhill
-Castles.”</p>
-
-<p>Mr. Thos. Codrington (“Roman Roads in Britain,” 1903) says: “Between
-the extreme points there are many straight pieces not quite in the same
-line, generally pointing to some landmark. There are several instances
-where a barrow or tumulus was the landmark, the road passing round it
-on nearing it. Silbury affords one example, and Brinklow, on the Foss,
-another.”</p>
-
-<p>Mr. James G. Wood (“Woolhope Club Transactions, 1910,” p. 146) says:
-“The origin and purposes of these tumps associated with Roman roads
-will well repay investigation. I have traced a line of such works
-across South Monmouthshire and West Gloucestershire from Caerleon
-through Caerwent into the Forest. All of these are so placed that each
-is in sight of the next in either direction. Again, we find that such
-roads were in many cases ranged or laid out in line with small camps or
-such tumuli&mdash;being, in fact, surveying stations.”</p>
-
-<p>The Rev. S. Baring-Gould (“Book of Dartmoor,” 1900) says: “The stone
-row is almost invariably associated with cairns and kistvaens. They
-do not always run parallel; they start from a cairn and end with a
-blocking stone set across the line.”</p>
-
-<p>The Rev. S. Bentley (“History of Bosbury,” 1891) says: “Under the cross
-in the churchyard, at its removal to its present site in 1796, a huge
-shapeless mass of rock weighing upwards of two tons was found. This
-stone now lies in the churchyard close to the tower on the south side.”
-Another writer refers to it as “this large unhewn mass of Silurian
-rock.”</p>
-
-<p>Mr. Hillaire Belloc (“The Old Road,” 1904), writing of the Pilgrim’s
-Way, says: “Now on its way from Winchester to Canterbury the Old Road
-passes, not in the mere proximity of, but right up against, thirteen
-ruined or existing churches.”</p>
-
-<p>Mr. Belloc also says: “The sacredness of wells is commingled all
-through Christendom with that of altars”; and giving Continental
-instances, also refers to the one under the altar at Winchester.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[26]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">ROMAN ROADS.</h2>
-
-<p>The exact relation of Roman roads to the earlier leys is a matter for
-future investigation, but our co-member Mr. Jack is on the right lines
-when investigating the surface construction to find whether a road can
-be called Roman. It is not easy to realise that many British roads were
-as ancient to the Roman invaders as the Roman remains are to us.</p>
-
-<p>My general impressions from observed facts are that the Roman surveyors
-used the sighting system; that they utilized the old trackways,
-imposing greater width and their far superior road surface and
-foundations; also that working during the degeneration of the ley
-system, they did not appreciate the long distance primary points, but
-working on short distance hills and points their roads are not so
-consistent and individual. I find evidence that they established their
-stations on the original leys, and that these were then so numerous
-as to form the boundaries of stations or towns, and thus decide their
-polygonal shape. It is also probable that a great many Roman roads
-of which portions remain were never completed, although the sighting
-points of the original ley continue on the line.</p>
-
-<p>The road from Aymestry to Mortimer’s Cross comes down to the Wye in the
-cutting at Bridge Sollars.</p>
-
-<p>The “Roman” straight road from Leintwardine through Paytoe and Wigmore
-Moor (the subject of recent digging) continues as a ley through Lucton
-and Kingsland Churches.</p>
-
-<p>I consider the existing maps of Roman roads to have little value as
-being based on the assumption that there were no straight sighted
-roads before the Romans came, and that (quite illogically) such a road
-could go round corners, and had to follow the tracks over which some
-old writer had travelled. I find the so-called straight Roman roads,
-as from Kenchester to Lugg Bridge, to be really on several slightly
-diverging leys, three in this case.</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">PLACE NAMES.</h2>
-
-<p>The ley and its sighting points were earlier than homesteads, hamlets,
-or towns, and as the latter evolved on the tracks, place names
-naturally bear traces of their origin.</p>
-
-<p>It is no reflection on philologists that, not knowing of the ley, they
-have made misinterpretations, and have a huge mass of corrections
-to make. In particular they will find a past neglect in translating
-place names in the light of traders coming along the road and meeting
-the buyers at settled points. The man who brought the long-coveted
-gold ornaments might only come once a year, but to the women of the
-community the Gold Hill, Gold Post, or Golden Cross (roads), where they
-met him, or the Golden Valley, along which he came, would be likely to
-take their names from his wares. There are two of each of the above
-Gold place names in the county.</p>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_026fp" style="max-width: 403px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_026fp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate XI.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">CHURCHYARD CROSS.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller p-small">Bitterley.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_027fp" style="max-width: 447px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_027fp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate XII.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">TREE.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller p-small">Eastwood Oak, Tarrington.</p>
- </div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[27]</span></p>
-
-<p>The notes which follow must be taken rather as suggestions than as
-final conclusions.</p>
-
-<p>The common suffix&mdash;ley&mdash;indicates a ley of the character denoted by
-the first element in the name, and “meadow” is not, I think, the right
-interpretation. The numerous Leys Hills are not likely to be so called
-from meadows.</p>
-
-<p>The suffix&mdash;ton originated by a mark stone on the ley becoming the
-nucleus of a homestead, and perhaps later a town.</p>
-
-<p>The suffix&mdash;bury clearly indicates a mound which was a sighting tump.
-It is a strange development that these tumps were coveted both as
-places to be buried in and to live on. Mrs. Gillespie (who lived at
-Trewyn, Pandy, for 17 years) writes me: “I suppose you know that Trewyn
-was built on a burial mound,” and goes on to describe the discovery of
-a cist with human remains which they dug up under one of the rooms.
-I had told her how Trewyn was on two leys (therefore on a sighting
-point), one being down the avenue of ancient pine trees straight for
-Alt-y-Ynis.</p>
-
-<p>Barrow (another mound name) occurs at Cradley, Pembridge, and
-Wheelbarrow Castle, Leominster; Canon Bannister shows that Coldborough
-was formerly Colbarwe, and he also associates borough and bury as from
-the same root. A variation is berrow as in Broomsberrow. Just as the
-sighting stone&mdash;ton became the site of our modern town, so the mound
-evolved into the borough.</p>
-
-<p>Low&mdash;the universal name for the mound in Derbyshire&mdash;is not so common
-here. But Wormlow Tump, Ludlow, Warslow, and Bradlow indicate sighting
-points.</p>
-
-<p>Bury is used alone as the name for a tump, as in the many Bury Farms,
-or as at Ivington Bury. A farmer still calls the earth covered tump in
-which he winters his roots a bury. Towns like Ledbury first grew round
-a sighting mound.</p>
-
-<p>“Broom” occurs with great persistence on leys, with its variations brom
-and bram. Bromley and Bramley, Bromton and Bramton, Bromfield (where is
-the Old Field with a number of tumuli), Broomsgreen, Broomsberrow, and
-the many Broomy Hills are examples. It is not confined to one form of
-sighting point, and I surmise (from<span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[28]</span> a faint line of evidence) that a
-component part of our modern broom was an essential working implement
-of the skilled ley man, and was continued as the staff of the mediæval
-pilgrim. Whether the plant broom was the original root word or a
-derivative I cannot say.</p>
-
-<p>Lady Lift (a hill-point mound) is on a ley with Lady Harbour Farm, and
-the prefix Lady is applied to court, grove, ridge, oak, and meadow in
-the county. The Lady Harbour of Hereford Cathedral is on one of the
-leys which form Church Street, and had the name before any church was
-built there. It might possibly indicate a woman’s shelter on the road.</p>
-
-<p>The suffix&mdash;tree, probably originated in a single tree planted as a
-sighting point, either as at “Cross of the Tree” in Deerfold Forest, or
-to mark the apex of a natural hill as illustrated in <a href="#i_027fp">Plate XII</a>. Webtree
-is on such a hill with two leys passing through it. Its name signifies
-that it is the spot where the webbe or weaver met his buyers. He
-travelled along the webbe-ley, and there are three Weobleys (formerly
-Webbeley) in the county, at Weobley Ash, and Weobley Cross, also the
-better known townlet. He also met others at a mark-stone now known as
-Webton. The surnames Webb, Webber, and Webster still survive.</p>
-
-<p>In the same way another first word element gave the place names (and
-surnames from them) of Bosley (Cattle-ley), Boston, Bosbury, Boswell,
-Bostock, and Boscastle. Again, Stanley, Stanwell, Stanton, Stanbury,
-and Stanbatch. And I have shown how the white (salt) man gave the first
-element to innumerable place names on his route. There is a Silver Tump
-and a Brass Knoll in the Olchon Valley, both proved sighting tumps.</p>
-
-<p>The names Bowley, Bowling Green (farm, also a quarry near Ewias
-Harold), Bolitree, Bolstone, Bollingham, Bal Mawr, Balls Cross,
-Ballgate, Bellgate, Bellimore, and Belmont, all seem akin to the
-rounded outline of an inverted bowl, or to boils, bowels, and belly of
-animal life, and indicate the rounded tump.</p>
-
-<p>The house at Bolitree is built on a tump with signs of a moat, and as I
-found a ley through Bollingham (house and chapel) I went there to find
-the bol, and there it was, a fine tump with an old summerhouse on its
-summit.</p>
-
-<p>Gate in a place name (as in Hill Gate, Three Gates, Ballgate, England’s
-Gate, Burley Gate, etc.) did not mean, as now, something which stopped
-a way (that was called a lid-yatt), but the way itself. It is much the
-same as the word pass. The same element (modified) is in such names as
-Gatley, Gatsford, Yatton, Symonds Yat, Woodyatt’s Cross.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[29]</span></p>
-
-<p>Lee Line and Timberline Wood are place names clearly describing leys.
-There is a Linton and a Linley at Stanford Bishop&mdash;the mark stone and
-the ley. I think that Lyonshall, Lynhales, Lion Farm, and Hobby Lyons
-are variations.</p>
-
-<p>Such names as Winslow, Preston Wynne, Winsley, and Winyard (Radnor
-Forest) indicate the road by which wine was brought. Totnor,
-Totteridge, Tothill, and Twt indicate (as Mr. J. G. Wood has pointed
-out) tumps, and they are all sighting tumps on leys. Mr. Wood (who has
-come very near discovering the ley) also&mdash;in Woolhope Transactions for
-1919&mdash;connects Titterstone, Clee Hill (<a href="#i_008fp">Plate I</a>.) with the word Tot or
-Toot. Tooting and Tottenham are London forms of the word. Rosemary
-Topping (English Bicknor) is a much prettier name for a sighting tump.</p>
-
-<p>Bur or Burl seems to be descriptive of some form of sighting point.
-Leys pass through Burley, Burlton, Burton (many of this name), Burford,
-and The Burcot; and there is a Burl Hill in Radnorshire.</p>
-
-<p>Although a ley ran from peak to peak there must have been an earlier
-termination to its useful part, or a still more restricted part used
-by traders. Hence&mdash;in London&mdash;Finsbury; Capel-y-fin in the Black
-Mountains; and Fine Street, near Letton, have probably the same
-meaning, which, however, seems to be locally more often expressed by
-the word end, as in New End (Canon Pyon), Red Wych End (Cowarne),
-Nupend, etc.</p>
-
-<p>As regards the place name element “broad” (also brad and bred), a ley
-passes through Broad Green (Orleton), The Broad, north of Leominster,
-Broadward, south of Leominster (dead on the main road at each of these
-two), and on to Broadlands at Aylestone Hill, Hereford. It was the
-road, not the place, which was broad, constructed for wheel traffic,
-for which the previous pack-horse tracks were too narrow. Mr. Allan
-Bright, of Barton Court, Colwall, wrote me, pointing out that a ley
-from the Wych through his house to Ledbury Church, also ran through a
-meadow of his called Broadley Meadow. Such names as Bradley, Bradlow,
-Bradford, Broadmoor, Broad Oak, and Bredwardine are thus explained.</p>
-
-<p>Probably most instances of the word elements, little and long, apply
-to the roads which pass through the places. Hereford is (no doubt
-correctly) said to mean “army road.” Little Hereford is not a small
-edition of the town, but of the road. Litley is the small ley, Longley
-is the long ley, and so with the stone, grove, land, and ford<span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[30]</span> (there
-have been two Longfords). Long in old spelling was often lange; and
-little, lutel or luttel&mdash;these from Canon Bannister’s list. Hence come
-the (places and surnames) Langstone, Langford, Langland, Langton,
-Lutley, Luton. The two Leinthalls&mdash;Earles and Starkes&mdash;are seldom
-called by these second names locally, but are Little Leinthall and
-Long Leinthall respectively, the element leint (occurring also in
-Leintwardine) being I surmise derived from ley. Little Leynthale, to
-quote an old spelling, would be the meadow traversed by the short ley.</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">DISCOVERY BY PLACE NAME.</h2>
-
-<p>I have experienced this in several cases, and will detail one. A local
-antiquarian (Mr. W. Pilley) always maintained that there had been
-an ancient spring&mdash;the Bewell spring&mdash;close to Bewell House and the
-Hereford Brewery within the City. When I lived there with my father
-we knew nothing of it. But about a year ago the present owners in
-sinking a new deep well and building a new engine house, uncovered the
-following inscription cut in stone in the base of the brewery wall, but
-covered by a rockery in my time:&mdash;</p>
-
-<p class="center">WELL, 71 FEET, 1724.</p>
-
-<p>I had always felt that the derivation given for the place name Bewell
-Street as Behind-the-wall Street was an error.</p>
-
-<p>There is a hill on the Canon Pyon road called Bewley or Bewdley Pitch.
-Solely on account of my surmise that the Bewley might lead to the
-Bew-well, I tried a line on the map and found a ley exactly falling on
-this “pitch” (or steep road) passing from the north through Bishops
-Moat (west of Bishops Castle), Meer Oak, Bucknell Church, Street Court,
-Stretford Churchyard, and Birley Churchyard, and exactly over the site
-of the well. Southwards over Palace Ford, Dinedor Camp, Caradock, Picts
-Cross, Hom Green Cross, Walford Church, Leys Hill, Speech House; there
-being numerous confirmations in fragments of road.</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">THE LEY-MEN.</h2>
-
-<p>The fact of the ley, with its highly skilled technical methods, being
-established, it must also be a fact that such work required skilled
-men, carefully trained. Men of knowledge they would be, and therefore
-men of power over the common people. And now comes surmise. Did they
-make their craft a mystery to others as ages rolled by. Were they
-a learned and priestly class, not admitted until completing a long
-training&mdash;as Cæsar describes the Druids. Or did they&mdash;as Diodorus and
-Strabo says of Druids&mdash;become also bards and soothsayers. Did they,
-as the ley decayed, degenerate into the witches of the middle ages.
-Folk-lore provides the witches with the power of riding through the air
-on a broomstick, the power of overlooking, that of the evil eye. They
-(in imagination) flew over the Broomy Hills and the Brom-leys. It may
-be that the ancient sighting methods were condemned as sorcery by the
-early Christian missionaries.</p>
-
- <div class="figcenter">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_030afp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_030bfp" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p0"
- src="images/i_030bfp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate XIII.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">TREES.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">1. A One-tree Hill, Llanvihangel-nant-Melan.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small hangingindent">2. Scotch-Fir (or Scots Pine) Avenue, Monnington (See <a href="#i_038fp">Plate XVII</a>.).</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_031afp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_031bfp" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p0"
- src="images/i_031bfp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate XIV.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">CAMPS.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">1. One of the Four Mounds, Sutton Walls.</p>
- <p class="p0 p-left smaller p-small">2. Herefordshire Beacon.</p>
- </div>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[31]</span></p>
-
-<p>Were they the laity or lay-men of Beowulf?</p>
-
-<p>In later days our first English poet was one Layamon, and in his time
-were men called Ley-cester, Leye, and Ley-land.</p>
-
-<p>In the Oxford Dictionary is given the obsolete word cole as meaning
-in the 16th century a false magician, a juggler, and cole-prophet (or
-cold-prophet) with a similar meaning, and there is a cole-staff or
-cowl-staff also mentioned, which, although then meaning a carrying
-stick, was&mdash;I surmise&mdash;originally the working sighting staff of the
-cole-man, who was the magician of the ley. The word still survives in
-colporter, a walking seller of books, who carries his wares slung over
-his shoulder on a stick.</p>
-
-<p>We have in our district Coldman’s Hill, Coldstone Common, Coles Tump
-(Orcop), and Coles Mountain (Presteign). In other parts of England are
-Coley, Colbury, Colebatch, Colestock, Coleshill, Coleford, Coleham,
-Colchester, and Coleridge, which last has an alternate name Coldridge,
-confirming other instances of the intrusion of the d. I surmise Cold
-Harbour (Kentchurch) to have been Cole Harbour.</p>
-
-<p>Colmanswell in Ireland possesses to-day a “sacred” well, and this name,
-together with our own ancient Colewelle in Herefordshire, now altered
-to Colwall, is probably nearer the original root meaning than is the
-case of the three Coldwells at Holmer, Kingston, and English Bicknor.</p>
-
-<p>A Bishop’s name Colman is mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and
-Cole is also a common surname to-day.</p>
-
-<p>There are other names for a ley-man indicated in the two Derbyshire
-place names, Totmans Low and Laidmans Low, the Low being a sighting
-mound.</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">HINTS TO LEY HUNTERS.</h2>
-
-<p>Keep to the discovery of lines through undoubted sighting points, as
-artificial mounds (including castle keeps), moats and islands<span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[32]</span> in ponds
-or lakes. In practice churches can be treated as sighting points, but
-in some cases a ley passes through a tump or well close to the church.
-Avoid for a time the temptation of taking every bit of narrow straight
-road and extending it into a ley. Scrap every ley you think you have
-discovered if it does not pass through at least four undoubted sighting
-points exclusive of roads.</p>
-
-<p>You must use Government ordnance maps. One mile to the inch is the
-working scale. Other maps of two or four miles to the inch are quite
-useless, save for checking long leys.</p>
-
-<p>The (B) “Popular edition, mounted and folded in covers for the pocket,”
-is the most convenient for field work and is the cheapest, as it
-contains over double the area of the older (C) 18 x 12 edition; but
-I have found the latter (uncoloured, in flat sheets) necessary for
-transferring leys from one map to the next on drawing boards in the
-office.</p>
-
-<p>Maps cut in sections are useless for this exact work.</p>
-
-<p>About four drawing boards, a light 24-inch straight edge, a T square
-for pinning down the maps accurately to line with the boards, a
-moveable head T square to adjust to the angle of the ley, so as to
-transfer to the next map, and a box of the glass headed pins used by
-photographers (in addition to the usual drawing pins) are the minimum
-essentials for real work. A sighting compass for field work used in
-conjunction with a special divided quadrant on the moveable head of
-square are aids I have found valuable.</p>
-
-<p>Remember that the entire course of a ley can be found from two
-undoubted sighting points on it if marked on the map. Therefore stick a
-glass headed pin in these two points, apply the straight edge, and rule
-the line, pencil it at first, ink afterwards.</p>
-
-<p>When you get a “good ley” on the map, go over it in the field, and
-fragments and traces of the trackways will be found, always in straight
-lines, once seen recognised with greater ease in future.</p>
-
-<p>Where close detail is required, as in villages and towns, the 1´´scale
-is far too small, and the 6´´ scale is necessary. The angle of the ley
-is transferred to it from the 1´´ map with the aid of the moveable head
-square. Maps must be pinned square on the board by the T square passing
-through identical degree marks on the edges, latitude for leys running
-E. and W., but longitude for leys N. and S. The edges of the maps are
-not truly in line with the degree lines, and must not be the guide.</p>
-
-<p>Ley hunting gives a new zest to field rambles, and the knowledge of the
-straight ley provides new eyes to an eager observer.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_33">[33]</span></p>
-
-<p>I have a mental vision of a Scout Master of the future, out ley hunting
-with the elder boys of his troup, instructing them as they look out
-from a high sighting point. “Now, Harold! if you only take that pole
-out of your eye, you will see better to pick out that distant moat that
-Cyril has in his eye. He’s got it, right enough, just a speck of light
-from the ring of water round the island. When I told you to use your
-pole as a sighting staff, I didn’t tell you to see nothing else. Now
-we have found the ley, I think we shall see a bit of the old track in
-that far grassy field this side the moat; it’s narrow and straight, and
-there are many who never find it because they look for a broad way like
-our present wheel tracks.”</p>
-
-<h2 class="smaller">A FEW LEYS.<br />
-<span class="subhed">(<i>Additional to others detailed in text and maps</i>).</span></h2></div>
-
-<p>Colva Hill to Birdlip Hill, via Parton Cross, Breinton Camp and Ford,
-Red Hill, Holme Lacy House, Caplar Camp, Yatton Church, Moat and Camp
-beyond Newent, and dead on “Ermin Street” for five miles.</p>
-
-<p>Gwaun Ceste Hill to Brimpsfield Castle, via Michaelchurch, Eaton Camp,
-Perry Hill, Dinedor Cross, Tump, Brockhampton Old Church, Cross in
-Hand, Upton Court, The Conigree, Rudford Church, Gloucester Cathedral,
-Castle Hill, Witcombe Park, and Blacklains.</p>
-
-<p>Gwaun Ceste Hill to West Tump, via Colva Church, Brilley Green, The
-Scar Rock (Brobury), down Monnington Walks (central), Monnington
-Church, The Chantry, Perrystone, Mullhampton, Anthony’s Cross,
-Tibberton Court, Llanthony (Glos.) Abbey, and dead on a Gloucester
-street.</p>
-
-<p>Little Mountain (Westbrook) to St. Ann’s Well and Priory Church,
-Malvern, via Arthur’s Stone, Cross End, Moccas Church, Monnington
-Church, Credenhill (old) Court, Pipe and Lyde Church, and Beacon Hill.</p>
-
-<p>Pen-y-Beacon to North Hill, Malvern, via Sugwas Park, Ten Houses Pond
-(<a href="#i_015bfp">Plate VI</a>.), Burcot Pool, White Stone Chapel, Shucknell Hill, Stretton
-Grandison Church, Moat at Birchend, and Mathon Church.</p>
-
-<p>Croft Ambury to Y-Fan-Drongarth (2,410 peak in Brecon Beacon group),
-via Hill Barn, Easthampton, Milton House, Court of Noke, Elsdon,
-Bollingham Chapel Tump, Clyro Church, Llowes Church, Bryn-Rhydd, and
-Slwch Camp, Brecon.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_34">[34]</span></p>
-
-<p>Bailey Hill (Knighton) to May Hill (Longhope), via The Warden,
-Presteign, Golf Course Tump, Holmer, Holmer House, Holmer Lane Tump,
-Venn’s Lane, The Prospect and Tupsley Hospital Road, Main Street and
-Church, Fownhope, Caplar Camp, How Caple Church, Old Gore Cross, and
-Linton Church.</p>
-
-<hr class="r25" />
-
-<h2>ENDWORD.</h2>
-
-<p>I close up my patchwork pages for this booklet, and a tired brain finds
-relief in two memories. The one of the day, just on half a century ago,
-when, a lad on a trader’s route for my father’s brewery, I pulled up my
-horse to look with wonder at the Four Stones, standing like sentinels
-in a field corner. Later in the same day, the steep slope of the
-Radnor Forest surmounted, came the first view of Castle Tomen at the
-summit of the Forest road, with its background of Wye and Irfon Valley
-(Breconshire) Mountains. And the note of unsatisfied wonder struck
-that day has lingered through nearly fifty years’ unusually intimate
-knowledge of our beautiful West Country border land, and I know now
-that my sub-conscious self had prepared the ground and worked at the
-problem I now see solved.</p>
-
-<p>The second memory is the vivid one of the rush of revelations in the
-gorgeous year of sunshine just finished. And I can scarcely realize
-that half the year had gone, the clear smoke-free distances of early
-summer a thing of the past, and midsummer day over, before I got the
-first clue. Once started, I found no halt in the sequence of new facts
-revealed by active search on the tracks.</p>
-
-<p>It is a mere framework for a new knowledge that I offer, but I know
-that it has solid foundations, and that good wholesome field work by
-others&mdash;for it may not be granted to me to do very much more&mdash;will fill
-in many gaps. That is why I write.</p>
-
-<p><span class="smcap">Postscript.</span> In some districts&mdash;as Salisbury Plain and the
-Yorkshire Wolds&mdash;there are groups of adjacent barrows so numerous that
-it is probable that most of them were built as burial mounds only, not
-sighting mounds. This is not the case in the district investigated.</p>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_034fp" style="max-width: 401px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_034fp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate XV.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">CHURCH.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller p-small">Ledbury, the Spire sighted up Church Lane.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_035fp" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_035fp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate XVI.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">CASTLE.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller p-small">Wigmore Castle, showing the sighting mound.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_038fp" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_038fp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate XVII.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">CASTLE.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller p-small">Brampton Bryan Castle with Coxall Knoll on right.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_039fp" style="max-width: 406px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_039fp.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate XVIII.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">HOUSE IN MOAT.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller p-small">Gillow.</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_041fp_1" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_041fp_1.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate XIX.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">MAP OF TWO LEYS (A. &amp; B.) AND PARTS OF C. &amp; D. SEE CONTENTS TABLE</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller p-small">(Based upon the Ordnance Survey with the sanction of the Controller of
-H.M. Stationery Office).</p>
- </div>
-
- <div class="figcenter" id="i_041fp_2" style="max-width: 650px">
- <img
- class="p2"
- src="images/i_041fp_2.jpg"
- alt="" />
- <p class="p0 p-left smcap smaller">Plate XX.</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller">MAP OF EIGHT LEYS THROUGH CAPEL-Y-TAIR-YWEN, HAY. SEE CONTENTS TABLE</p>
- <p class="p0 center smaller p-small">(Based upon the Ordnance Survey with the sanction of the Controller of
-H.M. Stationery Office).</p>
- </div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_35">[35]</span></p>
-
-<h2>INDEX.</h2>
-</div>
-
-<p><i>Most of the Places indexed are in Herefordshire; those in adjoining
-counties are, if necessary, indicated by the initial of the county (as
-R. for Radnor) following the name.</i></p>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Abdon Burf (S.),
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Aberllynfi-Gaer (B.),
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Aconbury Church,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Almeley Batch Twt,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Almeley Woonton,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Altars,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Alt-y-ynis,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Anthony’s Cross (G.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Arthur’s Stone,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Assemblies,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li>
-
- <li>Avenues (trees),
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Avenues of Pines,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Aylestone Hill,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Aymestrey,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Bach Hill (R.),
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Backbury,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Badesley Clinton (Warwick.),
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li>
-
- <li>Bailey Hill (R.),
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Baldwin (Archbishop),
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Bal-Mawr (B.), Balls Cross, Ballgate,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Bannister, Rev. A. J.,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a>
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Baring-Gould, Rev. S.,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Barrow,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Barton Court,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Bartonsham Farm,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Bassam,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Batch,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li>
-
- <li>Beachley (G.),
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Beachwood Mound,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Beacon Hill,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Bellgate, Bellimore, Belmont,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Belloc, Hillaire,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Belmont,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a>,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Bentley, Rev. S.,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Beowulf,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Bewell Spring,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Bewley or Bewdley,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Bible parallels,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Bicknor Walks (G.),
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li>
-
- <li>Birchend Moat,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Birdlip Hill (G.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Birley Church,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Birley Hill,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Bitterley Cross (S.),
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a></li>
-
- <li>Bitterley (S.),
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Bishop’s Moat (S.),
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Black Darren,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a></li>
-
- <li>Black Hill, Olchon,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Blackfriars, Hereford,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Blacklains (G.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Black Mountains,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Black Traders road,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Blackwardine,
- <a href="#Page_9">9</a></li>
-
- <li>Bobblestock Hill,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Bolitree, Bolstone, Bollingham,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Bollingham,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Borough,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Bosbury, Boston, Bosley,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Bosbury Cross,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li class="hangingindent">Boswell (Staff.), Bostock (Staff.), Boscastle (Cornwall),
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Bowley Bowling Green,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a>,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Bowley Town,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li>
-
- <li>Boy Scouting,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Bradley, Bradlow,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a>,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Bramley,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Brampton Bryan,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Bramton,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Brass Knoll,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Bredwardine,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Breinton,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Bren Tor (Devon),
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Bridge Sollars,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a>,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li>
-
- <li>Brilley Green,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Brinsop,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li>
-
- <li>Brimpsfield Castle (G.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Brinklow (Wilts.),
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Brimfield,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Broad Green,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Broad (The),
- <a href="#Page_9">9</a>,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Broadlands, Broadley, Broadward,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Brobury Scar,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Brockhampton Church,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Bromton,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Bromfield,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Bromley (Kent),
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Broom,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a>,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Broomsgreen (G.),
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Broomsberrow (G.),
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Broomstick,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Broomy Hill,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a>,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Brown Clee (S.),
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Bryn-y-Maen (R.),
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Bryn-Rhydd (R.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Bucknell Church (S.),
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Bullingham,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Burcot Pool,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Bury,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li>
-
- <li>Burial Mound,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a>,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Bur, Burton, Burford, Burcot,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Burl, Burley, Burlton,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Burley Gate,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Bury,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Bush Bank,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Byford Ford,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Caerleon (M.),
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Caerwent (M.),
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Cairn,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li>
-
- <li class="hangingindent">Camps&mdash;
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_9">9</a>,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a>,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Canterbury,
- <a href="#Page_13">13</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Capel-y-fin (B.),
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a>,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a>,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Capel-y-tair-ywen (B.),
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Caplar Camp,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a>,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Caradock,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Castles&mdash;
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a>,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a>,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Castle Hill (Glos.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Castle Hill (Hereford),
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Castle Farms,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Castle Tumps,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Castle Tomen,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Causeways,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_13">13</a>,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Chamber Well,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Chantry, Perrystone,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Christian Era,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li>
-
- <li>Churchdown (G.),
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li class="hangingindent">Churches&mdash;
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_7">7</a>,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a>,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a>,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a>,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a>,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a>,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Cist,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Clee Hill (S.),
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Clifford,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Clyro Church (R.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Codrington, Thos.,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Colchester, Coleham, Coleridge,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Coldborough,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Cold Harbour, Coldridge,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Coldman’s Hill, Coldstone,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Coldwell,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Cole, Coleman,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Cole-prophet, Cold-prophet,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Cole-staff,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Coleshill, Colestock, Coleford,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Colewelle, Colmanswell,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Coles Tump, Coles Mountain,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Coley, Colebury, Colebatch,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Colva Church (R.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Colporter,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Colva Hill (R.),
- <a href="#Page_32">32</a></li>
-
- <li>Colwall,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Commerce,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li>
-
- <li>Concrete in Causeways,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a></li>
-
- <li>Conigree (G.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Constable’s Firs,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Coronation Stone,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Coxall Knoll,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Court of Noke,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Craft of the Ley-men,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Cradley,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Credenhill,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Croft Ambury,
- <a href="#Page_9">9</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Croft Lane,
- <a href="#Page_9">9</a></li>
-
- <li>Crosses,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Cross Ash (M.),
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Cross Colloe,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Cross End Farm,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Cross in Hand,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Cross Oak (S.),
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Cross Roads,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_13">13</a></li>
-
- <li>Cross of the Tree,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a>,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Cruger Castle (R.),
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a></li>
-
- <li>Cullis,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li>
-
- <li>Cusop,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li>
-
- <li>Cuttings,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>D, intrusion of letter,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Dancing in Circle,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li>
-
- <li>Dartmoor,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Deerfold Forest,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Duchess Walk (S.),
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Dial Carreg (M.),
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Dial Post (W.),
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Didley,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li>
-
- <li>Dinedor Camp,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a>,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Dinedor Cross,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Dinedor Holy Well,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Dolmen,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li>
-
- <li>Domestic Camp,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Doomsday Book,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Dorstone Castle Tump,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Droitwich (W.),
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Druids,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Eardisland,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li>
-
- <li>Eardisley Park,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Earthworks,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a>,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Eastwood Oak,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Easthampton,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Eaton Bishop Camp,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Eccles Green,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Elsdon,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Enclosures,
- <a href="#Page_9">9</a></li>
-
- <li>England’s Gate,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Ermin Street (G.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Exeter, church over ley,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Evolution of Moats,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li>
-
- <li>Evolution of Mounds,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li>
-
- <li>Evolution of Crosses,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Felin-fach Moat (B.),
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Ferries,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Field Work,
- <a href="#Page_32">32</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a>,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Fine Street and Finsbury,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Flansford,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li>
-
- <li>Flint Age,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li>
-
- <li>Flint Flakes,
- <a href="#Page_9">9</a></li>
-
- <li>Flint Traders road,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Folly, The (R.),
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Folk-mote,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li>
-
- <li>Fords&mdash;
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_13">13</a>,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a>,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a>,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Forest,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Foss (Glos. and Wilts.),
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Four Stones (R.),
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a>,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Fownhope,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Franchise-stone,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Froom’s Hill,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Gallows Tump,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Garn,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li>
-
- <li>Garnons,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Garron River,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a></li>
-
- <li>Gate,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Gatley,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a>,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Gatsford,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Gillespie, Mrs.,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Gillow,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li>
-
- <li>Giraldus,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Glade,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li>
-
- <li>Gladestree (R.),
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li>
-
- <li>Glascwm Hill (R.),
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Gloucester,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Golden Cross,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Golden Well,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Gold Hill,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Gold Post,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Gold Traders road,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Golden Valley,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Goodrich,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Gospel Oaks,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Great Oak,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Green Crise,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Grosmont (M.),
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Grove,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Gwaun ceste Hill (R.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Hampstead Heath (Mid.),
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Hargest Ridge,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li>
-
- <li>Harrow (Mid.),
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Harpton Court (R.),
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Hatterill Hill,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Hay Tump,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Haywood Forest,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Hell Moat, Sarnesfield,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Hentland Cross,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Henwick,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Hereford,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a>,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; All Saints,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; Barrol Street,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; Bishop’s Meadow,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; Broad Street,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; Chapel of Hospitallers,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; Cathedral,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; Castle Green,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; Castle Hill,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; Church Street,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; Harley Court,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; The Knoll,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; Offa Street,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; Overbury,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; Palace,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; Prospect,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; St. John Street,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; St. Peter’s,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; Quay Street,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; Venn’s Lane,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; Wye Street,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Herefordshire Beacon,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a></li>
-
- <li>Herrock Hill, Holy Well,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>High Cullis,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li>
-
- <li>Hill Barn,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Hill Gate,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Hill-tracks,
- <a href="#Page_7">7</a></li>
-
- <li>Hobby Lyons,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Hoggs Mount,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Holme Lacy House,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Holmer,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a>,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a>,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Holmer Tumps,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Hom Green Cross,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Homesteads,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a>,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Holy Wells,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Hope-under-Dinmore,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Houghton Mound,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a></li>
-
- <li>How Caple Church,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Hunderton,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Hungerstone,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a>,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li>
-
- <li>Hungerford (Mid.),
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Implements for mapping,
- <a href="#Page_32">32</a></li>
-
- <li>Ingestone,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_13">13</a></li>
-
- <li>Iron,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Irfon Valley (B.),
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Island on moat,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a>,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li>
-
- <li>Ivington Bury,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Jack, G. H.,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Kenchester,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a>,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a>,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li>
-
- <li>Kenderchurch,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Kiln Ground Wood,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>King’s Acre Elm,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Kingsland Church,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li>
-
- <li>Kington Church,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Kistvaens,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Knap,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Knoll,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Lady Harbour,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Ladylift&mdash;court, grove, meadow,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a>,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Laidmans Low,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Laity, lay-men,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Lakes,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a>,
- <a href="#Page_32">32</a></li>
-
- <li>Lane,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li>
-
- <li>Lay <i>see</i> <a href="#Ley">Ley</a></li>
-
- <li>Layamon,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Laynes Farm (G.),
- <a href="#Page_13">13</a></li>
-
- <li>Laysters Pole,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Ledbury,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a>,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Lee Line,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Leintwardine,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a>,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Leinthall,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Lemore,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a></li>
-
- <li>Letton Lakes,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li>
-
- <li id="Ley">Leys,
- <a href="#Page_3">3 to 34</a></li>
-
- <li>Leycester,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Ley Farms,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li>
-
- <li>Leys Hill (G.),
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a>,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Ley hunting&mdash;
- <a href="#Page_9">9</a>,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a>,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a>,
- <a href="#Page_32">32</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Ley-men,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a>,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a>,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a>,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li class="hangingindent">Leys, route of&mdash;
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_13">13</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a>,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a>,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a>,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a>,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Lidyatt,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Linton,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a>,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Linley,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Lion Farm,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Litley,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Little Hereford,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Little Mountain (R.),
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>&mdash;&mdash; (Westbrook),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Llanelieu Church (B.),
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Llanigon (B.),
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a></li>
-
- <li>Llanigon Mound (B.),
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Llansaintfraed-in-Elvel (B.),
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Llanthony (Mon.),
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a></li>
-
- <li>Llanthony (Glos.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Llanvihangel Court (M.),
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Llanvihangel Crucorney (M.),
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li>
-
- <li>Llanvihangel-nant-Melan (M.),
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Llowes Church (R.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Longtown,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_13">13</a>,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Longford,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Longworth,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Low,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a>,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Lucton Church,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li>
-
- <li>Ludgate Hill, London,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Ludlow (S.),
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Lugg Bridge,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li>
-
- <li>Lyde Cross Tree,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Lyepole,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Lyonshall, Lynhales,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Mackay, J. C.,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Madley,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Maescoch,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Magna,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Magician,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Mainstone Court,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li>
-
- <li>Malvern Hills,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Malvern Priory Church,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Marden Church,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Mark Stones&mdash;
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a>,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Marstow,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li>
-
- <li>Mathon Church,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>May Hill (G.),
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Maypole,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Meer Oak (S.),
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Menhirs,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Merbach,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Merry Hill,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Michaelchurch Escley,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Milton,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Moats&mdash;
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_7">7</a>,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a>,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a>,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Moccas,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Monnington Church,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Monnington Walks,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Monnow,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_13">13</a></li>
-
- <li>Moreton-on-Lugg,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Mortimer’s Cross,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li>
-
- <li>Mote and Moat,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Mouse Castle, Hay,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Mouse Castle, Hereford,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li class="hangingindent">Mounds&mdash;
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_7">7</a>,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a>,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a>,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a>,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a>,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a>,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a>,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a>,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a>,
- <a href="#Page_32">32</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a>,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Mound&mdash;evolution of,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li>
-
- <li>Mound (various names for),
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li>
-
- <li>Mountain Tracks,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li>
-
- <li>Mullhampton,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Mynydd-Brith Tump,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Mynydd Ferddin Hill (B.),
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Neolithic Age,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_13">13</a></li>
-
- <li>Newchurch Hill (R.),
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>New End,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>New Radnor Castle (R.),
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>North Hill Malvern,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Notches&mdash;sighting,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li>
-
- <li>Nupend,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Oakley Park (S.),
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Oaks,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Olchon,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_13">13</a>,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Oldcastle,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Old Gore Cross,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Old Radnor Church,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>One Tree Hill,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Ordnance Maps,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_32">32</a></li>
-
- <li>Over Ross,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Pains Castle Mound (R.),
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Palmer’s Court,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Palace Ford, Hereford,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Parallel Roads,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li>
-
- <li>Parks,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Park Hall (S.),
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a></li>
-
- <li>Partricio (M.),
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Parton Cross,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Paytoe,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li>
-
- <li>Pedlar’s Cross,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Pen-y-Beacon,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Perry Hill,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Perrystone,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Philology,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li>
-
- <li>Picts Cross,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Pilgrim’s Way, Kent,
- <a href="#Page_13">13</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Pilgrim’s Staff,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Pine (Scotch or Scots),
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Piper, G. H.,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Pipe and Lyde Church,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Ponds,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_13">13</a>,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a>,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a>,
- <a href="#Page_32">32</a></li>
-
- <li>Portcullis,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li>
-
- <li>Pottery, Ancient,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Precipice Walk,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li>
-
- <li>Preston-on-Wye Church,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Preston Wynne,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a>,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Primary Peaks,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li>
-
- <li>Priory Wood, Clifford,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Putson Ford,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Queen’s Stone,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Radnor Forest,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Redborough (R.),
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Red Gates,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Red Hill,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Red House,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Red Ley,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Red Lion,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Red Pottery,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li>
-
- <li>Red Traders road,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Red Wych End,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Redley,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li>
-
- <li>Rhiw Wen,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Rhiw,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a></li>
-
- <li>Rhos-goch Castle Tump (R.),
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Ridge-ways,
- <a href="#Page_7">7</a></li>
-
- <li>Risbury Camp,
- <a href="#Page_9">9</a></li>
-
- <li>Roman Roads,
- <a href="#Page_9">9</a>,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_13">13</a>,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a>,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li>
-
- <li>Roman Stations,
- <a href="#Page_9">9</a>,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a>,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li>
-
- <li>Roman Surveyors,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a>,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a>,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li>
-
- <li>Roofing Tile-stones,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a></li>
-
- <li>Rosemary Topping (G.),
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Ross,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Rudford Church (G.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Rushwick (W.),
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Salt,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Saltmarshe Castle,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Saltways,
- <a href="#Page_9">9</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Sarnesfield Moat,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Scotch (or Scots) Fir,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Scots Hole,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Shelwick,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li>
-
- <li>Shrewsbury,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Shucknell Hill,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Sighting Columns,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a></li>
-
- <li>Sighting Cuttings,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li>
-
- <li>Sighting Methods,
- <a href="#Page_9">9 to 34</a></li>
-
- <li>Sights, rifle,
- <a href="#Page_9">9</a></li>
-
- <li>Sighting Stones,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a>,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a></li>
-
- <li>Silbury (Wilts.),
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Silver Tump,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Sites and Sighting&mdash;
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a>,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Skirrid (M.),
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Slwch Camp (B.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Snodhill Castle,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Soothsayers,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Speech House (G.),
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>St. Ann’s Well (W.),
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>St. Clement Danes, London,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>St. Ethelbert,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>St. Guthlac Church,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>St. Ishaw’s Well (M.),
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>St. Martin’s in the Fields,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>St. Mary le Strand,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>St. Michael’s Mount,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>St. Paul’s Cathedral,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>St. Pewtress Well,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>St. Tecla’s Chapel (G.),
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Stanbatch, Stanbury,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Stanton, Stanley, Stanwell,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Stock,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a>,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Stoke Prior,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Storridge,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Stone Rows,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Street Court,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Stretford Church,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Stretton Grandison,
- <a href="#Page_9">9</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Suffix,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Sugwas Park,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Surveyors, early,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li>
-
- <li>Surveyors, ley-men,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Surveyors, Roman,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a></li>
-
- <li>Sutton Lakes,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li>
-
- <li>Sutton Walls,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Symonds Yat,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Talgarth Church (B.),
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Tan House,
- <a href="#Page_13">13</a></li>
-
- <li>Tarrington,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a></li>
-
- <li>Tenbury (W.),
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Ten Houses,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a></li>
-
- <li>Terminal Hills,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a></li>
-
- <li>Three Elms,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Three Gates,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Thruxton,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li>
-
- <li>Timber Line Wood,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Tibberton Court (G.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Tin Hill,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Tin Traders road,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Tinkers Hill and Cross (W.),
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Titterstone Clee Hill (S.),
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a></li>
-
- <li>Tomen,
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li>
-
- <li>Totnor, Tothill, Toot,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Totmans Low (Derby),
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Totteridge, Tottenham,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li class="hangingindent">Traders’ roads&mdash;
- <a href="#Page_9">9</a>,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a>,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a>,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Trees,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a></li>
-
- <li>Tre-fedw Mound (M.),
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a></li>
-
- <li>Trewyn House (M.),
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a>,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Trewyn Camp (M.),
- <a href="#Page_4">4</a>,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li>
-
- <li>Triangular Woods,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li>
-
- <li class="hangingindent">Tumps&mdash;
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a>,
- <a href="#Page_14">14</a>,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a>,
- <a href="#Page_20">20</a>,
- <a href="#Page_21">21</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a>,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a>,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a>,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Tumpa (B.),
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Tumpy Lakes,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li>
-
- <li>Tumpey Ley,
- <a href="#Page_12">12</a></li>
-
- <li>Tumulus,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a></li>
-
- <li>Tupsley,
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Turnaston,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-
- <li>Turrett Tump,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Twt, Tooting,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Upperton,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Upton (Bishop) Court,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Urishay Castle,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Vowchurch Cross,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a></li>
-</ul>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Walmer Street,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Walmsley,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Walm’s Well,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Walford Church,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a></li>
-
- <li>Walton (R.),
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Walsopthorne,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Warden The (R.),
- <a href="#Page_34">34</a></li>
-
- <li>Warslow,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Warwick, Chapel over ley,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Water Gate (Inigo Jones’),
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li>
-
- <li>Watling Street, London,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Webtree,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Webton,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Wellington,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Wells&mdash;
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_10">10</a>,
- <a href="#Page_11">11</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a>,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a>,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a>,
- <a href="#Page_30">30</a>,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Weobley,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Weobley, Ash and Cross,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
-
- <li>Wergin’s Stone,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a>,
- <a href="#Page_18">18</a></li>
-
- <li>Wheelbarrow Castle,
- <a href="#Page_27">27</a></li>
-
- <li>Whitcliffe,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Whitfield,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Whitney, pottery at,
- <a href="#Page_5">5</a>,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Whitman’s Wood,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Whitwick Manor,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Whitecastle (M.),
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>White Cross,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>White House,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>White Rocks,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>White Stone,
- <a href="#Page_17">17</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>White Traders’ road,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Whiteway Head,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Whitewell House,
- <a href="#Page_23">23</a></li>
-
- <li>Whetstone,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li>
-
- <li>Wick (W.),
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a></li>
-
- <li>Widemarsh,
- <a href="#Page_24">24</a></li>
-
- <li>Wigmore,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a>,
- <a href="#Page_22">22</a>,
- <a href="#Page_26">26</a></li>
-
- <li>Wilton Castle,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Winchester,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a></li>
-
- <li>Wind’s Point,
- <a href="#Page_6">6</a></li>
-
- <li>Winforton,
- <a href="#Page_19">19</a></li>
-
- <li>Winslow, Winsley, Winyard,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Witcombe Park (G.),
- <a href="#Page_33">33</a></li>
-
- <li>Witches,
- <a href="#Page_31">31</a></li>
-
- <li>Withington,
- <a href="#Page_15">15</a></li>
-
- <li>Withington Lakes,
- <a href="#Page_16">16</a></li>
-
- <li>Wood, Jas. G.,
- <a href="#Page_25">25</a>,
- <a href="#Page_29">29</a></li>
-
- <li>Woodyatts Cross,
- <a href="#Page_28">28</a></li>
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