But that a street or a trackway of some kind, of an identical route with the present highway, ran between London and Dover long before Caesar landed can scarce be matter for doubt.
The Central Trackway to which I have alluded is a paved causeway, the continuation of the Fosseway.
By ascending Hameldon, and walking along the ridge due south, the Great Central Trackway is crossed, in very good condition, and a cross stands beyond it.
His tomb in the Cathedral became the second shrine in Christendom, and pilgrims came to it along the old trackway through Surrey, from Farnham east of the Hog's Back along the hills to Canterbury in Kent.
East of Tandridge Hill Lane, on the far side of a grass field, a curious path, half ditch, half avenue of yews and thorns, leads down through woodland to green trackway again.
On the downs by Newlands Corner, near the great trackway of the trading Britons, stand some of the finest yews in England.
Nor was it long ago that a trackway which runs from Forest Green, two miles to the west of Ockley, through Tanhurst over Leith Hill, was known as the Smuggler's Way.
It has, in fact, been for centuries the trackway that has connected eastern and southern Germany with Lombardy and Venetia.
The banks were loose and crumbling, and the trackway littered with stones.
Suddenly the trackway straightened out into a great colonnade that ran due south between trees of yet vaster girth.
Crude and imperfect as the primitive locomotives must have been, a very short trial of them 186 served to show that the rails of cast-iron then in use were totally unfitted to form a trackway for the newly invented machines.
Notwithstanding these special precautions, the trackway will sink down a little during the passage of an engine or train, but will generally return to its former level.
Then in the dusk she wandered down the brook, Treading again the trackwaytrod of old, When she could hold her loved one in a look.
So the night passed; the noisy wind went down; The half-burnt moon her starry trackway rode.
Having given his orders, he chose out a gang of macheteros, or men carrying the sharp sword-like machetes, to march ahead of the main body, to cut a trackway in the pulpy green stuff.
There was a rush across the narrowtrackway at the drivers, the mules were seized, and in a moment, two full recuas were in the raiders' hands.
The adventurers took their weapons, and crept through the scrub to the trackway "to hear the bells.
Every clump of trees near the trackway would be filled with Spanish sharpshooters, while they might expect earth-works or trenches nearer to the city.
The trackway or rail rope rests upon saddles of iron or hard wood on the tops of terminal supports, usually known as towers.
The trackwaymay either run in a more or less horizontal direction, i.
The load is carried along a trackway consisting of a single span of suspended cable, which covers a comparatively short distance.
A trackway from Manaton to Headland Warren runs through the pound, and the wall has been broken through for this purpose in two places; but the original entrance to the S.
The great central trackway crosses Hamildon, and is very perfect where it does so.
Such soils retain a reasonably smooth trackway in dry weather even when subjected to considerable traffic.
As a general rule it has been found that stone that wears away at a moderate rate will, when used for water-bound macadam surface, result in a smoother trackway than one that will wear very slowly.
In each case, however, the wearing surface consists of the natural soil, which may have been shaped and smoothed for traffic or may be in its natural state except for a trackway formed by the vehicles that have used it.
The hill between them bears the name of Hare Kanp, possibly preserving the memory of the Saxon armies that once marched along the trackway that crosses it (M.
The modern Bath road deserts the Roman trackway to make an easier descent into Radstock, but the Roman road, more suo, regardless of obstacles, clambered up hill and down dale, and made straight for Stratton.
It numbered nigh an hundred files, riding "by twos," a formation which the narrow trackway rendered compulsory.
Another and much larger tumulus until recently was situated opposite to the parish church at Warrington, and contiguous to the ancient Latchford, by which the British trackway and the great Roman road crossed the Mersey.
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