1. Another reason for such sharp changes of alignment in otherwise straight enclosure roads is parish boundaries. 2. Desmond Bonney followed his initial research by an examination of parish boundaries associated with Roman roads and late prehistoric linear earthworks. 3. He noted the incidence of barrows reused as Saxon cemeteries and other Saxon burials on or near parish boundaries in Wessex. 4. In our own case, if we were free to plant beyond our parish boundaries, we should already have done so. 5. Passing over the parish boundary at Sunderlandwick, the old toll bar is on the right, and Bar Farm opposite. 6. When the latter were realigned or made anew they often met the earlier roads at a sharp angle on the parish boundaries. 7. For the first time in at least three centuries my branch of the Hey family had set up home beyond the Kirkburton parish boundary. |