Thriplow
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Thriplow is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, 8 miles south of Cambridge. The village also gives its name to a former Cambridgeshire hundred.
Thriplow Village Stores
Thriplow and surrounding villages
Icknield Way
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The Icknield Way is an ancient trackway in southern and eastern England that runs from Norfolk to Wiltshire. It follows the chalk escarpment that includes the Berkshire Downs and Chiltern Hills.
Thriplow
…and a barrow to the east of the village contains a Bronze Age burial. The village itself probably existed in Romano-British times (around AD 150). The Icknield Way to the south of the village was probably an important factor in the village's growth. Listed as Tripelan in around 1050 and Trepeslau in the Domesday…
Icknield Way near Lewknor in Oxfordshire
The same view of the Icknield Way near Lewknor from 2005 before the byway was restricted to exclude motor vehicles
Spencer Gore: "Icknield Way", 1912. Used as the cover picture of "The Icknield Way Path – A Walkers' Guide" published by the Icknield Way Association in 2012