i84 THE RED DEER OF EXMOOR. 



and across Almsworthy Common to Edgcott and 

 Exford. From this point on, beside the river and up 

 the hill by Road Castle to Room Hill, it is called in 

 1257 "The Great Way." At or near Spire Cross it 

 crossed the trackway from Windsor to Hawkridge. 

 Probably the Great Road turned here to the right, 

 and crossing the Barle at Tarr Steps, went on by 

 Anstey and Old Ways End ajong the high land west 

 of Exe to Tiverton, and thence to Exeter. 



There must have been a trackway to Dulverton by 

 way of Court Down, and Catford's Lane, but this 

 would be of minor importance. 



There was another main road which started from 

 Gloucester and went to Clifton, crossing the Avon 

 by the old ford a few hundred yards below the 

 present suspension bridge, where it was fortified on 

 both sides, and, following approximately the present 

 roadway, came to Cadbury Camp. Thence it went 

 by a devious line to Yatton, and by Banwell to the 

 ford on the Axe River at Cross, and across Brent 

 Marsh to Pawlett, where it joined the road from Old 

 Sarum. Leaving the Pawlett Hills by the Shoulder 

 of Mutton Inn — where Monmouth slept the night 

 before Sedgmoor — the track ran straight to Comb- 

 wich Passage over the Parret, and passing between 

 Cannington Park and Idstock, went by Keenthorn 

 to the Quantock Hills, which it crossed by the 

 existing track under Danesborough to Crowcombe, 

 and by Willet and Elworthy to Raleigh's Cross, and 

 the Heathpoult, and down to Quarme Water at 



