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The Icknield Way

Chapter 20: Transcriber's Note
By Edward Thomas
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The narrative follows an ancient track across the countryside, blending day-by-day walking notes with historical, archaeological, and folkloric reflections on prehistoric routes and local landmarks. Practical route descriptions and vivid landscape observation are interwoven with essays on roads, footpaths, and tradition, showing how earthworks, field patterns, and village features preserve traces of the past. Illustrated plates punctuate the itinerary, and contemplative passages consider the road as both a material route and a symbolic experience of movement, memory, and the enduring presence of the landscape.

WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD. PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH

FOOTNOTES

[1] Hibbert Lectures, 1889, p. 16.

[2] Wiltshire Archæological Magazine, XXXIV.

[3] Swindon Fifty Years Ago, by William Morris.

[4] Wiltshire Archæological Magazine, VII, 125.

[5] The Flock, by Mary Austin.

[6] Wiltshire Archæological Magazine, XXXIV.

[7] Travels in Arabia, by Charles M. Doughty.

[8] See his Introduction to The Footpath Way: an Anthology for Walkers.

 

 

Transcriber's Note

Duplicate headings have been removed.

The following apparent errors have been corrected:

  • p. 38 "St.David’s" changed to "St. David’s"
  • p. 65 "cntury" changed to "century"
  • p. 158 "Watlington" changed to "Watlington."
  • p. 160 "Hill" changed to "Hill."
  • p. 295 "Ashbury" changed to "Ashbury."
  • p. 312 "Bourton-in-the-Water" changed to "Bourton-on-the-Water"
  • p. 313 "134 135" changed to "134, 135"
  • p. 314 "74," changed to "74"
  • p. 314 "Iceni" changed to "Iceni"
  • p. 315 "Kentchester" changed to "Kentchester,"
  • p. 316 "Conqueror" changed to "Conqueror, 35"
  • p. 318 "78," changed to "78"

The following are used inconsistently in the text:

  • Halvehill and Halve-hill
  • knapweed and knap-weed
  • signboard and sign-board
  • Stow-in-the-Wold and Stow-on-the-Wold

The book cover image was created by the transcriber, using an image from the book, and is placed in the public domain.