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Peddar's Way
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The longest, best preserved, and best known of the early trackways of Norfolk, Peddar's Way can still be traced, with one or two doubtful sections, from Holme-next-the-Sea, near Hunstanton, in a south-easterly direction to Blackwater, the ford of the Little Ouse between Rushford and Riddlesworth, and thence for a few miles into Suffolk. Notwithstanding that most of this course is marked on the Ordnance Survey maps, that it was correctly given by Samuel Woodward in 1830, and that a pedestrian who essays (as I have done) to walk the fifty miles of this most interesting primitive route can have little doubt that it is correctly indicated, yet in 1872 it was referred to as the “Roman road which leads from Brancaster to Swaffham,” in 1904 as going from Brancaster to Castleacre, Swaffham, Ickburgh and Brandon, and thence to Exning, Bishop's Stortford and Stratford-le-Bow, while in 1908 § it was stated that it connected “the two Branodunums, that to the south, now Brandon, with that to the north, now Brancaster.” Of the various places mentioned Castleacre is the only one on its course.
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Title: Peddar's Way
Description:
The longest, best preserved, and best known of the early trackways of Norfolk, Peddar's Way can still be traced, with one or two doubtful sections, from Holme-next-the-Sea, near Hunstanton, in a south-easterly direction to Blackwater, the ford of the Little Ouse between Rushford and Riddlesworth, and thence for a few miles into Suffolk.
Notwithstanding that most of this course is marked on the Ordnance Survey maps, that it was correctly given by Samuel Woodward in 1830, and that a pedestrian who essays (as I have done) to walk the fifty miles of this most interesting primitive route can have little doubt that it is correctly indicated, yet in 1872 it was referred to as the “Roman road which leads from Brancaster to Swaffham,” in 1904 as going from Brancaster to Castleacre, Swaffham, Ickburgh and Brandon, and thence to Exning, Bishop's Stortford and Stratford-le-Bow, while in 1908 § it was stated that it connected “the two Branodunums, that to the south, now Brandon, with that to the north, now Brancaster.
” Of the various places mentioned Castleacre is the only one on its course.