Information for record number MWA8672:
Saltway through Shipston and Brailes

Summary A trackway or saltway of Medieval date. The trackway ran through Shipston and Brailes.
What Is It?  
Type: Trackway
Period: Medieval (1066 AD - 1539 AD)
Where Is It?  
Parish: Barcheston
District: Stratford on Avon, Warwickshire
Grid Reference: SP 29 40
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Level of Protection National - Old SMR PrefRef (Grade: )
Sites & Monuments Record
Description

  
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1 A saltway ran from Twyford, north of Evesham, east through Shipston and Brailes and on.
2 Illustrative maps, showing alternative route east of Shipston.
3 Discussion of the salt way and linked communication routes as centred on Brailes.
 
Sources
Source No: 3
Source Type: Correspondence
Title: Parish of Brailes; comment on Historic Town Assessment
Author/originator: Dr Phillip Tennant
Date: 2015
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Source No: 2
Source Type: Map
Title: Historic Landscape Assessment Routeway Maps
Author/originator: Hooke D
Date: 1999
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Source No: 1
Source Type: Unpublished document
Title: Historic Landscape Assessment
Author/originator: Hooke D
Date: 1999
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Glossary

 
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period Medieval 1066 AD to 1539 AD (the 11th century AD to the 16th century AD)

The medieval period comes after the Saxon period and before the post medieval period.

The Medieval period begins in 1066 AD.
This was the year that the Normans, led by William the Conqueror (1066 – 1087), invaded England and defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in East Sussex.
The Medieval period includes the first half of the Tudor period (1485 – 1603 AD), when the Tudor family reigned in England and eventually in Scotland too.

The end of the Medieval period is marked by Henry VIII’s (1509 – 1547) order for the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the years running up to 1539 AD. The whole of this period is sometimes called the Middle Ages.
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monument TRACKWAY * A pathway, not necessarily designed as such, beaten down by the feet of travellers. back
monument TOWN * An assemblage of public and private buildings, larger than a village and having more complete and independent local government. back

* Copyright of English Heritage (1999)

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