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Icknield Way
Icknield Way. A trackway which runs from the central Thames, through the Chilterns, and northwards to the Wash near Hunstanton. Though claims are made for a prehistoric origin, it is doubtful that such long-distance trackways existed, at least as a single entity, until the Iron Age at the earliest. At Baldock, the Icknield Way was certainly being formalized in the early 1st cent. ad by the digging of side ditches, but an earlier Iron Age date may be claimed from the dikes which cut across its line in the Chilterns.
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JOHN CANNON. "Icknield Way." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Icknield Way." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-IcknieldWay.html JOHN CANNON. "Icknield Way." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-IcknieldWay.html |
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Icknield Way
Icknield Way (prehistoric trackway from Norfolk to Dorset). Icenhylte 903. Obscure in origin and meaning, although there may be some connection with the Iceni, the Iron Age tribe who once inhabited Norfolk and Suffolk. The name was transferred in the 12th cent. to the Roman road from Bourton on the Water to Templeborough near Rotherham, now called Icknield or Ryknild Street.
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A. D. MILLS. "Icknield Way." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. A. D. MILLS. "Icknield Way." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-IcknieldWay.html A. D. MILLS. "Icknield Way." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O40-IcknieldWay.html |
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Icknield Way
Icknield Way A trackway which runs from the central Thames, through the Chilterns, and northwards to the Wash near Hunstanton. Though claims are made for a prehistoric origin, it is doubtful that such long‐distance trackways existed, at least as a single entity, until the Iron Age at the earliest.
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JOHN CANNON. "Icknield Way." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Icknield Way." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-IcknieldWay.html JOHN CANNON. "Icknield Way." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-IcknieldWay.html |
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Icknield Way
Icknield Way an ancient pre-Roman track which crosses England in a wide curve from Wiltshire to Norfolk.
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Icknield Way." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Icknield Way." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-IcknieldWay.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Icknield Way." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-IcknieldWay.html |
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