The Way to the Boundary Wood/ The Old Way
Description of this historic site
The route of a trackway known as 'The Way to the Boundary Wood'. The trackway is mentioned in documentary sources and dates to the Early Medieval period. It runs through Ullenhall.
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Notes about this historic site
1 Road referred to in a charter dated AD 963. This road led NW from Ullenhall into the heart of Arden. It is called ‘scir holtes way’ (the way of/to the boundary wood) south of the Ford of the Dark Mere [=PRN WA8662], and ‘ealdan weg’ (the old way) north of that point.
2 Map illustrating identified route.
- For the sources of these notes, see the
- Timetrail record
- produced by the Historic Environment Record.
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