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Summary

Gattery lane, challycroft road + yards lane. General route known locally as the old packhorse trail (pers comm brixham museum), although no firm evidence for antiquity. Not shown on donn's map of 1765. However, it may have provided access to and from southdown in medieval times, and was probably used for transporting limestone in postmedieval period. The dog leg of yards lane in particular suggests that it may have originally functioned as an access road within a medieval open field-system (turton + weddell).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX95SW/49

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• ROAD (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV150029.

Turton, s. D. + weddell, p. J. /preliminary archaeological assessment of sww torbay marine scheme/(1993)2/(emafu report 93.26).

Turton, S. D. + Weddell, P. J., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV1854.

Gattery lane, challycroft road + yards lane. General route known locally as the old packhorse trail (pers comm brixham museum), although no firm evidence for antiquity. Not shown on donn's map of 1765. However, it may have provided access to and from southdown in medieval times, and was probably used for transporting limestone in postmedieval period. The dog leg of yards lane in particular suggests that it may have originally functioned as an access road within a medieval open field-system (turton + weddell).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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