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Title: Highways and byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds.$With illus. by Frederick L. Griggs
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Evans, Herbert Arthur, 1846-
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Publisher: London, Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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kways are numerousand cross the downs in all directions. It will be enough tomention the White Way, leading from Cirencester to ^^^inch-combe, the Welsh Way, which crosses from Ermin Streetthrough Barnsley to Lechlade and was the route by whichWelsh cattle and Welsh coal reached the waterway of theThames, and the Salt Way, which starting from Droitwich mountsthe Cotswold at Hayles, and passing through Hawling andSalperton crosses the Foss just north of Stowell Park and runsstraight thence through Coin St. Aldwyns to the Thames atLechlade.^ The Roman conquest of southern Britain wascompleted by a.d. 47, and from the fact that very few of theCotswold camps show any traces of Roman construction itmay be inferred that the Dobuni offered but slight resistance. 1 From ihe fact that for nearly the whole of its course through theCotswold, the Foss Way forms the boundary of parishes, it may be conjec-tured that the Saxon conquerors employed it as a boundary line to dividetheir settlements. T 2
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Liuiiwoi til Church. CH. XI CHEDWORTH VILLA 277 Bath and Gloucester being outside our limits, the only cityfounded by the Romans with which we are concerned isCirencester, but the country houses or villas are numerous, andthose whose sites have been discovered are probably but asmall fraction of the whole number. Some half dozen of theformer are within a few miles of us at Fossbridge, and it is adelightful excursion up the Coin valley to Chedworth villa, thefinest of them all. On our right the clear, crystal Coin windsthrough rich green pastures in which the cattle are browsing;on our left are the Chedworth woods, fragrant in May with vaststretches of lilies of the valley, and now carpeted with theirthick clustering leaves. Not long after passing a desertedcottage half concealed by a tangled overgrowth of creepers, aturning to the left brings us to the villa. Forty years ago you would have seen nothing of theextensive remains which have now been revealed. You mighthave walked through

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