[WED]roads/tracks

[John Hayward]

It would be great if it were possible to scan and place the 1782 map on the
Wedmore web site, of a size that could be printed out on an A4 sheet.

John V Hayward
in The Heritage Coast, Suffolk, England.
john@hayward2.fsnet.co.uk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Jackes" <mjackes@telusplanet.net>
To: <wedmore@lists.tutton.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [WED]roads/tracks


> I've been fascinated by the exchange between John and Stan, under the
> subject of "half a metre of repeated messages".  Historians definitely
show
> that marriages occured outside one's own village more than we might
think -
> but what surprises me are the Meare-Wedmore connections.  There should be
> more Wedmore-Weare connections because they are both on the same high
> ground (I think I worked out from one old map, certainly more paths)- but
> no one has mentioned such a marriage.  I'm looking at a map from 1782,
> before the roads were put in, and there is only ome shakey looking path
> that leads down to Meare.  Meare is really famous to archaeologists
because
> it is the location of many excavations of brush paths laid down in the
> Bronze Age.
>
> I have scanned the 1782 map, and also one from 1822, by which time there
> were numerous proper roads.  I have covered the area from Weare to Meare
> and Mark to Theal - trying to cover the villages most people are
> mentioning. I intend to send the maps to Michael - maybe I should just
> offer to attach them to people who contact me (personally, NOT via the
list).
>
> Maybe there was a whole flurry of new connections from 1805 onwards -
seems
> to have been an increase in the population of the villages around that
time.
> Mary Jackes
> Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 0N8, Canada.
>
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