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The Rollright Stones : history & legends in prose & poetry

FOR several miles the counties of Oxford and Warwick, are bounded by a narrow straight roadway. From the "Cross Hands" to the Edge Hills, this road follows the northern boundary of the Cotswold country. To the north west lie the fertile valleys and plains of the Warwickshire Feldon country, whilst eastwards the ground gently slopes to the valley of the Cherwell. The ridge thus divides the watersheds of the Thames and Severn.

This road, in places now only a grass track (as between Traitors Ford and the Banbury — Shipston main road), is probably one of the oldest in England. Long before the Roman Legions made their wonderful arterial roads — perhaps even before the fair haired Celts swarmed over Britain — this roadway stretched across the country from the neighbourhood of Gloucester (the Ermine Way) to Northampton. On the north end of the Edge Hills, the road now runs along what was once the trench of a British Camp, and from there to the Rollrights, there are innumerable traces of that early British civilization, about which we know so little. Forts and Barrows there are in plenty, but all other remains are dwarfed in interest by the stone circle known as the Rollright or Rollrieh Stones.

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: Chipping Norton : P. Simms.,
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cdl; americana
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