England -- Antiquities; England -- Description and travel; Roads -- Great Britain
=Tin=, mined originally in Cornwall, 20.
=Titsey Church=, old, example of church passed to south by Old
Road, 110;
passed on journey, 216.
=---- Park=, discoveries in, mentioned, 82;
flanking road on hills to east of, 107;
Roman remains of, and passage of Old Road through, 214.
=Towns=, inland, advantages for defence over seaports, 67;
avoided by Old Road, exceptions to this, 149.
=Trottescliffe.= See =Coldrum=.
=Turnpike Roads=, second cause of preservation of Old Road, 76, 95.
=Twelfth Century=, revolution of the, 84-87.
=Upwood Scrubbs=, near Caterham, Old Road lost in, 208.
=Valleys=, examples of advantages of partial isolation, 31;
of Wey, Itchen, Darent, Medway, etc. See under these names.
=Varne=, sand-buoy, alluded to, 37.
=Walton Heath=, Roman remains at, 197.
=Watershed=, method of crossing one, 60-61;
that between Itchen and Wey, 61-62 (and map);
proximity of, to Medstead, 113;
direct approach to, an argument for Itchen Stoke Ford, 131;
also for coincidence of Old Road with Brisland Lane, 135;
how approached from Ropley valley, 137 (and map);
passed on journey, 140;
map of, in detail, 143;
of Medway and Stour, 259.
=Watling Street=, alluded to, 18;
preserved when others disappeared in twelfth and thirteenth
centuries, 86.
=Wells=, in churches, list of, 57 (note).
=Welsh Road=, preserved, like the Old Road, by turnpikes, 95-96.
=West Country=, importance of, in early times, 19-22;
spirit of, 21.
=Weston=, or =Albury Wood=, Old Road passes to north of,
106 (note);
this part of road described in journey, 173.
=Weston Street=, old name for Albury, significant of passage of
Old Road, 136 (note 2).
=West Street=, near Lenham, place-name significant of passage of
Old Road, 136 (note 2).
=Wey River=, discussion of how crossed by Old Road near Shalford,
164-167 (and map).
=----= valley of, forms Winchester to Farnham road, 60;
its geological conditions beyond Alton, 152 (and note);
coincidence of Old and modern road in, 149-152 (and map);
Roman remains in, 153.
=Whitchurch=, on original track of Old Road, 27.
=Whiteways=, point in Hog's Back where Old Road branches from
Turnpike, 156.
=Wight, Isle of.= See '=Isle of Wight=.'
=Winchelsea=, one of original harbours on northern shore of
Straits, 35.
=Winchester=, why the origin of Old Road in its final form,
causes of development of, 45-57;
inland town of the Second Crossing, 56;
great age of, 56;
compared to Chartres, 57;
compared with Canterbury, 66-71;
beginning of decay of, after twelfth century, 87;
arrangement of Roman streets in, 117;
site of north gate of, 118.
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