Shipston on Stour. Brailes Hill

View of Brailes Hill, Shipston on Stour. 1956

IMAGE LOCATION: (Warwickshire County Record Office)

Reference: PH(N), 600/606/1, img: 679

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1956

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A route taken by a funeral party is afterwards assumed to be a public right of way. Such routes are known as, “church-ways” or “corpse-ways”. There is a tradition that one exists between Brailes Hill and Bredon Hill, twenty-three miles away! It has been theorised that it is either a garbled memory of a sacred way or maybe ley-line linking the two.

By Gary Stocker (13/02/2021)