1 Toll house marked at the SE corner of the Half Moon public house.
2 The toll house has been demolished but its location is easy to find in the garden ...
The site of a toll house, where travellers paid a toll to use a toll road. The toll house was in use during the Imperial period. It was situated at the southern end of Brinklow.
1 Priest’s Bridge marked.
2 The present bridge is a fairly modern concrete structure and there are no traces of an earlier structure.
Priest's Bridge, the site of a Post Medieval bridge. The bridge is marked on a map of 1725 but no traces of it are visible on the ground. It was situated 500m north of High Wood.
1 Bridge marked.
2 The bridge still exists and appears to be an early one. It has two spans, hump-backed, of sandstone and brick and is reinforced with concrete. The upstream ...
Pedlar's Bridge, a bridge dating to the Post Medieval period. It is marked on an estate map of 1778. The bridge is situated on Smearton Lane.
1 A turnpike or toll road established between 1750 and 1751. First Act 1754-5.
A toll road that was in use during the Imperial period. Travellers had to pay a toll to use the road. It ran from Coventry to Market Harborough.
1 Site of signal box marked on OS map of 1886.
The site of a railway signal box which was in use during the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. The signal box was situated 100m south of Station Spinney.
1 Site of Brinklow Station marked on OS map of 1886.
Brinklow Railway Station which was in use during the Imperial period. It was situated 200m north west of Station Spinney. The railway station is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886.
We used to go down the Fosse Way to visit my Aunt, in Swindon. It wasn’t the same as now, it was a very quiet road and hardly anybody used ...