14 Walk two – brief overview Points of interest: Milepost 4 St. Gregory’s church , 7 An early milestone without 11 Line of the Stratford to 12 Talton House a grade II 17 Halford Bridge Inn is a theme – Walk two Tredington has Saxon origins discernible markings lies in the Moreton Tramway established listed building late c17th with grade II listed c18th former and the tallest spire in undergrowth along this short in 1825, one of the first c18th additions coaching inn. 12 13 This turnpike-era themed walk along part of the old 1 Shipston on Stour derives Warwickshire. The front door stretch of annexed Fosse Way. railways. At Newbold there 11 turnpike route includes historic mile markers, former its name from ‘sheepwash - shows the remains of bullet was a wharf and the line 13 Talton Mill . A mill at 18 Cast iron milepost at tollhouses and evidence of an 1820’s tramway. town’ as it was once an impor - marks from the English 8 The sixth restored cast iron branched off towards Talton is mentioned in 1308. junction of Fosse Way with 10 tant sheep market. During the Civil War. milepost. Ilmington at this point. Various owners are known Queen Street. There are no Beginning in the market town of Shipston-on-Stour, c18th and first half of the Newbold Wharf was the site from the 16th to 19th century. other mileposts of this type c19th the town was an 5 Going north from Long 9 Newbold on Stour former of Thomas Hutchings lime Corn milling ceased in 1938, along this stretch of the Fosse 9 it follows the route of the former Stratford to Long Compton Turnpike north to Newbold-on-Stour and then important staging post for Compton, the fifth cast iron road toll house at Newbold kilns until about 1895. There but the wheel continued to be Way in Warwickshire. Finding the Way across country following the Shakespeare Way footpath stagecoaches and many restored milepost. on Stour Gate, now Tollgate. is a restored wagon by Cox’s used to generate electricity for a while and then the Centenary Way before returning former coaching inns remain The principal structure is Yard in Stratford displaying for Ettington Hall until 1942. 19 Honington Hall is a grade A Heritage Lottery funded in evidence in the town centre. 6 Fosse Way. The word Fosse thought to have been built his name. Steam locomotives The mill then fell into disuse I listed building constructed 18 to Shipston. In all it is approximately 12 miles. There 15 Saint Edmund Parish Church is derived from the Latin for the Stratford to Long had been prohibited from and was demolished in 1956. by Henry Parker in 1682. Milepost restoration project are shorter permutations centred on Newbold and has a c15th tower. The Gothic ’fossa’ meaning ditch. For the Compton Turnpike Trust in operating on the tramway All that remains is the It was later owned by Joseph 17 taking in Halford Bridge for example (see map). Revival architect G.E. Street first few decades after the the 19th century in the form north of Newbold (where the wheelpit. There is a cafe and Townsend who carried out along the former 8 16 rebuilt the rest of the church in Roman invasion in AD43 the of a lodge house with tramway ran alongside the farmshop here. considerable alterations in Stratford-upon-Avon to Start : Free public car park opposite The Old Mill, 1855 Fosse Way marked the western protruding front. public road). the mid c18th. Shipston-on-Stour frontier of Roman rule in Iron 14 Ettington Park and Manor . Long Compton Turnpike Alternative 2 The restored cast iron Age Britain. It is possible that The Manor at Lower Eatington 20 Honington village . This short walk Lunch: White Hart Newbold-on-Stour (or start here on milepost now resembling the the road began as a defensive has been held by the Shirley small village is centred around the shorter walk and return for lunch or the Halford post recorded in a photograph ditch that was later filled in family since the Domesday a triangular green, south-east Bridge Inn). There are also village shops at Newbold of the Ship-ston Picture House and converted to a road or Survey in 1086 and possibly of the church at the junction 7 c1913 the details of which possibly a defensive ditch ran long before. No other family in of three roads. The River Stour and Halford. has formed the basis for the alongside the road (220 miles England is known to be able to flows west of the village and 6 restoration of the series of – Exeter to Lincoln). ?? make such a claim. The family the road to the south crosses Getting there: remaining mileposts along the seat, a neo-Gothic mansion, it by a bridge of c.1685. By car - former Stratford on Avon to was once named the most The oldest house is probably 5 By bus - Long Compton turnpike. haunted hotel in Britain. 'Magpies', a former t farm-house facing east s u r T 4 OS Map: Explorer 205 15 Halford . The village is towards the green. The walls e 9 Newbold on Stour former c where the Fosse Way crosses are of timber-framing of the a l road toll house at Newbold p h the river Stour. By the river but first half of the 16th century. t on Stour Gate, now Tollgate. r i B Old photograph taken in the 1910’s very difficult to see, are the e r (copyright restrictions apply) earthworks and buried remains 21 Fell Mill Farmhouse and a e p of Halford Castle, a motte attached mill is a grade II listed s e k castle, believed to be the building. It has a Datestone a 19 h S 10 Carved milestone erected predecessor of the present ‘WP/1697’. Said to have a e h t by the Shirley family of Manor House. cockpit in rectangular f o Ettington Park replacing an y 20 extension to rear. s e t earlier cast iron milepost of the 16 Halford Bridge is first r u 20 type restored along the former o mentioned in the 13th century, C This photograph is the only evidence, e 3 turnpike. An inscription on and it is during the English g to date, of a complete milepost. Notes on long distance a m footpaths featured along 3 Honington Toll House one of the shields reads: Civil War that the bridge’s I It is thought to have been taken c1913. this walk: Old photograph taken in the 1920’s. significance becomes obvious. (copyright restrictions apply) 6 Miles Demolished first by the Royalists The HLF funded Project has restored the remaining To Shakspeare's [sic] Town whose Name l Shakespeare’s Way – follows in 1644, it was later destroyed six mileposts to their functioning state. 21 a path that Shakespeare 3 Honington Toll House Grade II Is known throughout the Earth by the Parliamentarians also. may have followed between Listed Former road toll house at To Shipstone 4 whose lesser Fame The value of the bridge for Stratford and London Honington Turn Gate, now Old Tollbar Boasts no such Poet's Birth. transport, communication and Cottage. The principal structure is trade beyond the parish is Centenary Way – marks the thought to have been built for the perhaps seen by the fact that Shipston on Stour 2 l centenary of the governance Stratford to Long Compton Turnpike its repair was paid for by the 1 by County Councils 1889-1989 Trust in the 19th century in the form county itself. of a vernacular cottage. 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