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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Highedge meaning at the enclosure” is a name that would seem to indicate the existence of an Anglo/Danish community at some time.” Strangely even today Heage still retains an air of enclosure and isolation. To the East of the village the busy A38 Trunk Road hurries the traveller over the remains of a Norman deer-park passing close to two stark stone-built furnaces and cuts the line of the roman road Ryknild Street. To the West the floor of the Derwent Valley with its busy A6 the beautiful “road to the Matlocks” again hurries travellers by with scarcely a glance. The two hard sandstone ridges running North-South carry roads steeped in history and folk-lore. The higher of the two is the ancient “Ridgeway” a moor- land road which once linked the important abbeys of Darley and Beauchief. Burial mounds ancient place-names with many of Celtic origins are found along its path. Flint arrow-heads have also been discovered in fields adjacent to it. Along the slightly lower ridge runs the once important Sheffield-Derby Turnpike road now little used except by locals and a few curious visitors who hear of the strange village tales or simply wish to see “What lies over the hill?” Linking these four roads was an ancient packhorse way running in an East-West direction. Traces of its line can still be found overgrown and neglected slumbering in fields whose shapes.