The main road that was
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The photograph on this page of The main road that was by Graham Cole as part of the Geograph project.
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The main road that was
Image: © Graham Cole Taken: 1 Mar 2009
Few people live hereabouts and the width of this track surprised us. Wider than necessary for pack animals yet this must be a very old track, sunk between raised banks. Who needed this wide track and who did the hard work to make it so wide? Were the banks topped with stock proof hedges or were they built up only to mark the way through woods and keep traffic on the chosen route?
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Image Location
Latitude
52.017532
Longitude
-3.022178