Monument record 428/0/17 - Medieval/ post medieval road

{1} The back road in the 1782 map is of interest, as it has ceased to exist, not even to be seen in the 1839 Tithe map. Sections are still traceable on the ground, but no footpath follows its route. Documents reveal that it was the most used way from Yelvertoft to Lutterworth until the 1760s, when it began to deteriorate through neglect. By about the time of the enclosure of Yelvertoft, 1777, it was almost out of use, possibly also due to the new enclosure road through Elkington being laid out from Yelvertoft. In 1781 three of the Reeve family “dug in several places of the road and found it carried all the appearance of a road being very gravelly, hard and stony, and that there is all the appearance of the tracks of Waggons, but that formerly these witnesses all remember the road very much battered and beat and used as much as any road In the parish, and much more than the road through the town”.

<1> Timmins E.W., 1991, Clay Coton Manorial Hall Site, (checked) (Letter). SNN109047.

<2> 1782, Map of Clay Coton, (checked) (Map). SNN72696.

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Jul 26 2013 12:10PM