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| | History of Stevenage by Robert Trow-Smith Chapter 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | This Icknield Way, sprawling over the countryside until it was hedged, confined and metalled, certainly came into being as a track in the early Bronze Age, shortly after 2,000 B.C., and perhaps even a few centuries earlier. |
 | | One of the key points on the Icknield Way was the watering place at Ickleford, where the Purwell and Hiz streams meet. |
 | | So, a quarter or half a mile to the east of the ancient Roman ways, the Saxon founders of the first Stevenage pitched their camp and there conceived the village which later came to full birth, with its church and manor house in its centre and its fields around it. |
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