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Icknield Way

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The Icknield Way is an ancient trackway in southern and eastern England that goes from Norfolk to Wiltshire. [1]

113 relations: A Song of Ice and Fire, A505 road, Ancient trackway, Anglo-Saxons, Arthur Hobhouse, Aston Clinton, Baldock, Belinus, Berkshire, Berkshire Downs, Bernard Smith (art historian), Birmingham, Bledlow, Blewbury, Bourton-on-the-Water, Buckinghamshire, Bury St Edmunds, Caistor St Edmund, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Camden Town Group, Chalk, Charles Thurstan Shaw, Charter, Chesterfield, Chiltern Hills, Cholsey, Constable & Robinson, Cotton library, Countryside Commission, Derby, Dersingham, Dorset, Dunstable, East Anglia, Edward Thomas (poet), Ermine Street, Escarpment, Esker Riada, Exeter, Fosse Way, Geoffrey of Monmouth, George R. R. Martin, Great Britain, Great Yarmouth, Greater Ridgeway, Hardwell Castle, Harold Gilman, Harold John Edward Peake, Harwell, Oxfordshire, ..., Henry of Huntingdon, Hilaire Belloc, Hitchin, Holme-next-the-Sea, Hunstanton, Iceni, Ickleford, Icklingham, Icknield Street, Icknield Way Path, Iron Age, Ivinghoe, Ivinghoe Beacon, Knettishall Heath, Leges Edwardi Confessoris, Lewknor, Lichfield, Long-distance trail, Luton, Lyme Regis, Marlborough, Wiltshire, Matthew Paris, Modernism, National Trails, Neolithic, Norfolk, Norfolk Coast Path, Old Sarum, Overton Hill, Oxfordshire, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Peddars Way, Princes Risborough, Ranulf Higden, River Thames, Robert Macfarlane (writer), Roman Britain, Roman roads in Britannia, Rotherham, Roudham, Royston, Hertfordshire, Salisbury, Seaton, Devon, Slíghe Chualann, Spencer Gore (artist), Spring line settlement, Templeborough, The Ridgeway, Tom Stephenson (activist), Tumulus, Tynemouth, Uffington, Oxfordshire, Vincent van Gogh, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, Wanborough, Wiltshire, Wantage, Watling Street, Wessex Ridgeway, West Lockinge, Wiltshire, Winchester, York. Expand index (63 more) »

A Song of Ice and Fire

A Song of Ice and Fire is a series of epic fantasy novels by the American novelist and screenwriter George R. R. Martin.

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A505 road

The A505 is an A-class road in England. It follows part of the route of the Icknield Way and the corresponding Icknield Way Path and runs from Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire to the A11, Cambridgeshire near Abington and Sawston. Being built in the East of England countryside, the majority of the road is flat, and some of the road is raised.

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Ancient trackway

Ancient trackway can refer to any track or trail whose origin is lost in antiquity.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons were a people who inhabited Great Britain from the 5th century.

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Arthur Hobhouse

Sir Arthur Lawrence Hobhouse (15 February 1886 – 20 January 1965) was a long-serving English local government Liberal politician, who is best remembered as the architect of the system of National parks of England and Wales.

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Aston Clinton

Aston Clinton is a historic village and civil parish in the Vale of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Baldock

Baldock is a historic market town in the local government district of North Hertfordshire in the ceremonial county of Hertfordshire, England where the River Ivel rises.

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Belinus

Belinus the Great was a legendary king of the Britons, as recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth.

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Berkshire

Berkshire (abbreviated Berks, in the 17th century sometimes spelled Barkeshire as it is pronounced) is a county in south east England, west of London and is one of the home counties.

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Berkshire Downs

The Berkshire Downs are a range of chalk downland hills in southern England, part of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Bernard Smith (art historian)

Bernard William Smith (3 October 19162 September 2011) was an Australian art historian, art critic and academic, considered one of the most eminent art historians of the 20th century.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Bledlow

Bledlow is a village in the civil parish of Bledlow-cum-Saunderton in Buckinghamshire, England.

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Blewbury

Blewbury is a village and civil parish at the foot of the Berkshire Downs section of the North Wessex Downs about south of Didcot, south of Oxford and west of London.

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Bourton-on-the-Water

Bourton-on-the-Water is a village and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England that lies on a wide flat vale within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire, abbreviated Bucks, is a county in South East England which borders Greater London to the south east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north east and Hertfordshire to the east.

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Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Edmunds is a historic market town and civil parish in the in St Edmundsbury district, in the county of Suffolk, England.

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Caistor St Edmund

Caistor St Edmund is a village on the River Tas, near Norwich, Norfolk, England.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.), is an East Anglian county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west.

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Camden Town Group

The Camden Town Group was a group of English Post-Impressionist artists active 1911–1913.

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Chalk

Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock, a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite.

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Charles Thurstan Shaw

Charles Thurstan Shaw CBE FBA FSA (27 June 1914 – 8 March 2013), The Telegraph (UK), 9 March 2013 was an English archaeologist, the first trained specialist to work in what was then British West Africa.

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Charter

A charter is the grant of authority or rights, stating that the granter formally recognizes the prerogative of the recipient to exercise the rights specified.

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Chesterfield

Chesterfield is a market town and borough in Derbyshire, England.

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Chiltern Hills

The Chiltern Hills form a chalk escarpment in South East England.

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Cholsey

Cholsey is a village and large civil parish two miles (3 km) south of Wallingford, in South Oxfordshire.

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Constable & Robinson

Constable & Robinson Ltd. is an imprint of Little, Brown which publishes fiction and non-fiction books and ebooks.

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Cotton library

The Cotton or Cottonian library is a collection of manuscripts once owned by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton MP (1571–1631), an antiquarian and bibliophile.

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Countryside Commission

The Countryside Commission (formally the Countryside Commission for England and Wales, then the Countryside Commission for England) was a statutory body in England and Wales, and later in England only.

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Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England.

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Dersingham

Dersingham is a village, civil parish and electoral ward in the English county of Norfolk.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast.

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Dunstable

Dunstable is a market town and civil parish located in Bedfordshire, England.

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East Anglia

East Anglia is a geographical area in the East of England.

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Edward Thomas (poet)

Philip Edward Thomas (3 March 1878 – 9 April 1917) was a British poet, essayist, and novelist.

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Ermine Street

Ermine Street is the name of a major Roman road in England that ran from London (Londinium) to Lincoln (Lindum Colonia) and York (Eboracum).

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Escarpment

An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as an effect of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively leveled areas having differing elevations.

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Esker Riada

The Esker Riada (Eiscir Riada) is a system of eskers that stretch across the middle of Ireland, between Dublin and Galway.

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Exeter

Exeter is a cathedral city in Devon, England, with a population of 129,800 (mid-2016 EST).

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Fosse Way

The Fosse Way was a Roman road in England that linked Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) in South West England to Lincoln (Lindum Colonia) in Lincolnshire, via Ilchester (Lindinis), Bath (Aquae Sulis), Cirencester (Corinium) and Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum).

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Geoffrey of Monmouth

Geoffrey of Monmouth (Galfridus Monemutensis, Galfridus Arturus, Gruffudd ap Arthur, Sieffre o Fynwy; c. 1095 – c. 1155) was a British cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur.

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George R. R. Martin

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Great Britain

Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.

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Great Yarmouth

Great Yarmouth, often known to locals as Yarmouth, is a coastal town in Norfolk, England.

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Greater Ridgeway

The Greater Ridgeway, also known as the Greater Icknield Way, is a 362-mile (583 kilometre) long distance footpath crossing England from Lyme Regis to Hunstanton.

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Hardwell Castle

Hardwell Castle or Hardwell Camp is an Iron Age valley fort in the civil parish of Compton Beauchamp in Oxfordshire (previously Berkshire).

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Harold Gilman

Harold John Wilde Gilman (11 February 187612 February 1919) was a British painter of interiors, portraits and landscapes, and a founder-member of the Camden Town Group.

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Harold John Edward Peake

Harold John Edward Peake or Harold Peake F.S.A (1867–1946) was a British archaeologist and curator for the West Berkshire Museum.

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Harwell, Oxfordshire

Harwell is a village and civil parish in the Vale of White Horse about west of Didcot, roughly east of Wantage and approximately south of Oxford.

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Henry of Huntingdon

Henry of Huntingdon (Henricus Huntindoniensis; 1088 – AD 1157), the son of a canon in the diocese of Lincoln, was a 12th-century English historian, the author of a history of England, the Historia Anglorum, "the most important Anglo-Norman historian to emerge from the secular clergy".

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Hilaire Belloc

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 187016 July 1953) was an Anglo-French writer and historian.

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Hitchin

Hitchin is a market town in the North Hertfordshire District in Hertfordshire, England, with an estimated population of 33,350.

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Holme-next-the-Sea

Holme-next-the-Sea is a small village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Hunstanton

Hunstanton is a seaside town in Norfolk, England.

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Iceni

The Iceni or Eceni were a Brittonic tribe of eastern Britain during the Iron Age and early Roman era.

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Ickleford

Ickleford is a large village situated on the northern outskirts of Hitchin in North Hertfordshire in England.

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Icklingham

Icklingham is a village in the Forest Heath district of the English county of Suffolk.

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Icknield Street

Icknield Street or Ryknild Street is a Roman road in England, with a route roughly south-west to north-east.

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Icknield Way Path

The Icknield Way Path or Icknield Way Trail is a long distance footpath in East Anglia, England.

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Iron Age

The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.

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Ivinghoe

Ivinghoe is a village and civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England, close to the border with Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire.

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Ivinghoe Beacon

Ivinghoe Beacon is a prominent hill and landmark in the Chiltern Hills, standing 233 m (757 ft) above sea level.

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Knettishall Heath

Knettishall Heath is a 91.7 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest west of Knettishall in Suffolk.

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Leges Edwardi Confessoris

The title Leges Edwardi Confessoris, or Laws of Edward the Confessor, refers to an English collection of 39 laws, purporting to date back to the time of Edward the Confessor (reigned 1042–1066), but did not appear in written form until the reign of King Stephen in the 12th century.

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Lewknor

Lewknor is a village and civil parish about south of Thame in Oxfordshire.The civil parish includes the villages of Postcombe and South Weston.

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Lichfield

Lichfield is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England.

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Long-distance trail

A long-distance trail (or long-distance track, path, footpath or greenway) is a longer recreational trail mainly through rural areas, used for non-motorized recreational walking, backpacking, cycling, horse riding or cross-country skiing.

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Luton

Luton is a large town in Bedfordshire, England, Luton east of Aylesbury, west of Stevenage, northwest of London, and southeast of Milton Keynes.

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Lyme Regis

Lyme Regis is a town in West Dorset, England, west of Dorchester and east of Exeter.

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Marlborough, Wiltshire

Marlborough is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath.

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Matthew Paris

Matthew Paris, known as Matthew of Paris (Latin: Matthæus Parisiensis, "Matthew the Parisian"; c. 1200 – 1259), was a Benedictine monk, English chronicler, artist in illuminated manuscripts and cartographer, based at St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire.

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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National Trails

National Trails are long distance footpaths and bridleways in England and Wales.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic was a period in the development of human technology, beginning about 10,200 BC, according to the ASPRO chronology, in some parts of Western Asia, and later in other parts of the world and ending between 4500 and 2000 BC.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.

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Norfolk Coast Path

The Norfolk Coast Path is a long distance footpath in Norfolk, running 62.5 miles (100.5 km) from Hunstanton to Sea Palling.

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Old Sarum

Old Sarum is the site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury in England.

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Overton Hill

Overton Hill is a 571 ft (174 m) hill at the southern edge of the Marlborough Downs in Wiltshire, England.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England.

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Paul Cézanne

Paul Cézanne (or;; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

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Paul Gauguin

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist.

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Peddars Way

The Peddars Way is a long distance footpath in Norfolk, England.

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Princes Risborough

Princes Risborough is an affluent small town in Buckinghamshire, England, about 9 miles south of Aylesbury and 8 miles north west of High Wycombe.

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Ranulf Higden

Ranulf Higden or Higdon (– 12 March 1364) was an English chronicler and a Benedictine monk of the monastery of St. Werburgh in Chester.

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River Thames

The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England, most notably through London.

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Robert Macfarlane (writer)

Robert Macfarlane (born 15 August 1976) is a British writer.

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Roman Britain

Roman Britain (Britannia or, later, Britanniae, "the Britains") was the area of the island of Great Britain that was governed by the Roman Empire, from 43 to 410 AD.

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Roman roads in Britannia

Roman roads in Britannia were initially designed for military use, created by the Roman Army during the nearly four centuries (43 – 410 AD) that Britannia was a province of the Roman Empire.

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Rotherham

Rotherham is a large town in South Yorkshire, England, which together with its conurbation and outlying settlements to the north, south and south-east forms the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, with a recorded population of 257,280 in the 2011 census.

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Roudham

Roudham is a small settlement in Norfolk, England, part of the civil parish of Roudham and Larling in the district of Breckland.

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Royston, Hertfordshire

Royston is a town and civil parish in the District of North Hertfordshire and county of Hertfordshire in England.

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Salisbury

Salisbury is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England, with a population of 40,302, at the confluence of the rivers Nadder, Ebble, Wylye and Bourne.

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Seaton, Devon

Seaton is a large seaside town, fishing harbour and civil parish in East Devon on the south coast of England.

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Slíghe Chualann

Slíghe Chualann was an ancient roadway which stretched from the residence of the High King of Ireland at Tara to the lands of Cuala.

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Spencer Gore (artist)

Spencer Frederick Gore (26 May 1878 – 27 March 1914) was a British painter of landscapes, music-hall scenes and interiors, usually with single figures.

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Spring line settlement

Spring line settlements occur where a ridge of permeable rock lies over impermeable rock and there will be a line of springs along the boundary between the two layers.

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Templeborough

Templeborough (historically Templebrough) is a suburb of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.

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The Ridgeway

The ancient tree-lined path winds over the downs countryside The Ridgeway is a ridgeway or ancient trackway described as Britain's oldest road.

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Tom Stephenson (activist)

Tom Criddle Stephenson (1893–1987) was a British journalist and a leading champion of walkers' rights in the countryside.

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Tumulus

A tumulus (plural tumuli) is a mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

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Tynemouth

Tynemouth is a town and a historic borough in Tyne and Wear, England at the mouth of the River Tyne, being 8.1 miles (13.0 km) east-northeast of Newcastle upon Tyne.

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Uffington, Oxfordshire

Uffington is a village and civil parish about south of Faringdon and west of Wantage.

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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

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Wallingford, Oxfordshire

Wallingford is an ancient market town and civil parish in the upper Thames Valley in England.

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Wanborough, Wiltshire

Wanborough is a large village and civil parish in the borough of Swindon, Wiltshire, England.

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Wantage

Wantage is a historic market town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, England.

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Watling Street

Watling Street is a route in England and Wales that began as an ancient trackway first used by the Britons, mainly between the areas of modern Canterbury and using a natural ford near Westminster.

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Wessex Ridgeway

The Wessex Ridgeway is a long distance footpath in southwest England.

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West Lockinge

West Lockinge is a village in Lockinge civil parish, about east of Wantage.

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Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a county in South West England with an area of.

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Winchester

Winchester is a city and the county town of Hampshire, England.

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York

York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icknield_Way

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