Icknield Way

Major pre-Roman trackway traversing southeast England. It runs from Wells-next-the-Sea on the Norfolk coast in a generally southwesterly direction, passing first through Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. The Icknield Way then runs through Luton in Bedfordshire, skirts the Chiltern Hills, crosses the River Thames at Goring and follows the line of the Berkshire Downs to the source of the River Kennet in Wiltshire.

Especially in the 18th and 19th centuries, the Icknield Way was used as a drove road, to move sheep from their grazing lands in the Chilterns to markets in East Anglia, particularly Newmarket.