Upper Icknield Way
From Lacey Green History
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The Upper Icknield Way is mentioned in the article the Pre-History of Lacey Green by Ian Kelloway (click Ian & Sue Kelloway for more about Ian). The following is an excerpt to this article ---
"The Upper Icknield Way which has been incorporated into the Ridgeway Path is thought to be a Neolithic route way although recent excavations whilst constructing the Aston Clinton by-pass could not find any evidence of this route and some experts are suggesting that this route way was a much wider freeway and was not tracked until maybe as late as the late Saxon period.
Joan West mentioned the Upper Icknield Way when researching the route changes in 1810 that were implemented in 1823. The following is an excerpt from this report ---
" The oldest known route locally being The Upper Icknield Way. This was an ancient way stretching from Norfolk, near Grimes Graves, famous for the source of flint tools, as far as Wiltshire. It followed the hilltops, thought to be used in winter as opposed to the Lower Icknield Way, a parallel way further to the north, for the drier summer months. Here, it runs down the edge of the fields from Green Hailey to Culverton.
Flint tools and old coins from various eras have been found by professional detectors adjacent to this route.
From parts of the Upper Icknield Way the 'Ridgeway Path' has been developed."