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The Roman Villa at Chedworth, which in the opinion 

 of Mr Bellows was a government farm for the supply of 

 horses to the posting stations,'"' and the important villa at 

 Andoversford,"'' must also have been connected with arterial 

 roads. From Cooper's Hill, running through Brockworth 

 to Churchdown Hill, is a road still known by the name 

 of Green-street ; another road climbing the hill from 

 Shurdington to UUen Wood and across to the Seven 

 Springs is called the Greenway : a third road termed 

 Greenway-lane passes Battledown Knoll, on the eastern 

 boundary of Cheltenham ; and a fourth highway called 

 Greenway follows a winding course from Andoversford 

 to Norbury Camp, near Northleach. It is probable, as 

 the Rev. S. E. Bartleet has suggested, that the name 

 "Greenway" is a translation of the Roman designation 

 " Via viridariensis."+ From Seven Springs, skirting the 

 side of Leckhampton Hill, and descending to Charlton 

 Park is an ancient highway called Sandy-lane, a name 

 which in some places is the modern name for a Roman 

 way. In the little valley of the Churn, near Cowley, 

 where an old road through Elkstone from the Ermine-street 

 crosses the river, is Cockleford, a name which Mr 

 Bellows suggests may be derived from a Welsh word 

 signifying a ford in a hollow. In Cheltenham, a road to 

 Bath, which is known to have existed in Saxon times, 

 crosses the river Chelt at Sandford ; and the probability 

 that this name is a corruption of " sarn-ford," a paved-way 

 ford, is strengthened by the presence of paving-stones in 

 the bed of the stream beneath the bridge which carries 

 the road. Andoversford, the site of the Roman station 

 of Wycombe, probably derives its name from a ford 



Cottes. Club Proc, Vol. x., p. 226. 

 T Described in " Gentleman's Magazine," Jan., ii^64. 

 + Trans. Bris. and Glou. Arcrebo. Soc., Vol. vii., p. 132. 



