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Icknield Street
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Icknield Street (ĭk`nēld), name for a prehistoric road in England, extending SW from the Wash, along the line of the Chiltern Hills and Berkshire Downs, to Salisbury Plain.


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The main Roman routes through the county are the Fosse Way, Watling Street and Ryknield Street.
The road itself was begun as late as 1825 and from its beginnings at the end of Sherlock Street in Birmingham it was laid upon old country paths and lanes, one of which was that part of the Ryknield Street in Stirchley.
Meaning either literally the old ford or the ford in the hollow, it was where the Roman road known as the Ryknield Street or Icknield Street crossed the Tame.
 
 
 
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