Thereby hangs a tale...
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Thereby hangs a tale...
Image: © Keith Edkins Taken: 9 Mar 2018
Actually I found there are several tales attempting to explain this road name. Some involve smuggling. The prosaic, and therefore most likely, one, is that Ralph divorced his wife with a settlement involving a plot of land at the ends of this lane.
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53.680502
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