Entering Lechlade along Hambidge Lane (old Salt Way)
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Entering Lechlade along Hambidge Lane (old Salt Way)
Image: © Rob Noble Taken: 8 Jul 2012
The sign reads "Lechlade on Thames - Historic inland port". Hambridge Lane is part of the old Salt Way, a medieval trade route where salt was brought from Droitwich in Cheshire to Lechlade by pack horse trains and transferred to barges for shipping down the Thames to London.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.702103
Longitude
-1.696048