Bidford on Avon. High Street

'Old Icknield Street', Bidford on Avon. 1900 Icknield Street, sometimes Rycknield Street, was a Roman road which ran through Derby, Lichfield, Birmingham and Alcester. The origin of this name is very obscure (Vict. Hist. of Warwick, i. 239). | IMAGE LOCATION: (Warwickshire County Record Office)
 
'Old Icknield Street', Bidford on Avon. 1900 Icknield Street, sometimes Rycknield Street, was a Roman road which ran through Derby, Lichfield, Birmingham and Alcester. The origin of this name is very obscure (Vict. Hist. of Warwick, i. 239).
IMAGE LOCATION: (Warwickshire County Record Office)
Reference: PH, 350/211, img: 523
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Bidford on Avon (340)
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1900

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    Up until the end of the nineteen century, after church services on Trinity Sunday (the first after Whitsun), the parishioners used to take the following day off as holiday. Stallholders used to set up shop in the High Street to cater for them.
    Source: “Folklore of Warwickshire” by Roy Palmer

    By Gary Stocker (17/02/2021)

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