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ICKNIELD See also:STREET . (I) The Saxon name (earlier Icenhylt) of a prehistoric (not See also:Roman) " Ridgeway " along the See also:Berkshire See also:downs and the Chilterns, which crossed the See also:Thames neat Streatley and ended somewhere near Triitg or See also:Dunstable. In some places there are traces of a See also:double road, one See also:line on the hills and one in the valley below, as if for summer and See also:winter use. No See also:modern highroad follows it for any distance. Antiquaries have supposed that it once ran on to See also:Royston, See also:Newmarket and See also:Norfolk, and have connected its name with the Iceni, the See also:Celtic tribe inhabiting See also:East Anglia before the Roman See also:conquest. But the name does not occur in See also:early documents so far east, and it has certainly nothing to do with that of the Iceni (Haverfield, See also:Victoria See also:History of Norfolk, i. 286). See further See also:ERMINE STREET. (2) A Roman road which ran through See also:Derby, See also:Lichfield, See also:Birmingham and See also:Alcester is sometimes called Icknield Street and sometimes Rycknield Street. The origin of this nomenclature is very obscure (Vitt. Hist. of See also:Warwick, i. 239). (F. J. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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