Search
My feed

Curated News

Collection · 890 items
Curated news 5 Apr, 2021

Stirchley launches tourist walking tours after being named one of the best places to live in Britain – Birmingham Live

The Sunday Times included Stirchley in its 2021 best places to live – and now the suburb is capitalising on the accolade with a series of walking tours for locals, tourists and would-be residents

Source: Stirchley launches tourist walking tours after being named one of the best places to live in Britain – Birmingham Live

Submitted by: Babak Fakhamzadeh

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

corpse road

Also known as corpse way, coffin route, coffin road, coffin path, churchway path, bier road, burial road, lyke-way or lych-way. “Now is the time of night, That the graves all gaping wide, Every one lets forth his sprite, In the church-way paths to glide” – Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream. A path used in medieval times to take the dead from a remote parish to the ‘mother’ church for burial. Coffin rests or wayside crosses lined the route of many where the procession would stop for a while to sing a hymn or say a prayer. There was a strong belief that once a body was taken over a field or fell that route would forever be a public footpath which may explain why so many corpse roads survive today as public footpaths. They are known through the UK.

Added by Alan Cleaver
Problem?

Encountered a problem? Report it to let us know.

  • Include the page on which you encountered the problem.
  • Describe what happened.
  • Describe what you expected to happen.
Receive weekly updates from the world of walking · Are you a writer?

Weekly updates

Receive weekly curated updates from the world of walking. Are you a writer?


Marketing permission ?

What to expect ? · Privacy policy


Follow us