The Old Coffin Way off Parkers Lane
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The Old Coffin Way off Parkers Lane
Image: © Neil Owen Taken: 29 May 2021
The bridleway links Langley Fitzurse with Kington St Michael. However, it is an old track that was once held an important role in ancient times. Some more remote parts of the landscape were sparsely populated but when an inhabitant died, it would have been only fitting and appropriate that the corpse was carried, often many miles, to a consecrated church. In some cases, a large stone would have been used on the way to rest the coffin. This modern route may have been known as a coffin road, a burial road or lych way. Perhaps coincidentally, very close along this path was a saw mill and the old Fitzurse Manor house - would the saw mill have produced coffins?
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Image Location
Latitude
51.489368
Longitude
-2.118198