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ALLEY (0)
A passageway or lane between buildings.
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APPROACH ROAD (0)
A road, sometimes raised as a causeway, which serves as an approach road to a building or bridge.
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CARRIAGEWAY (1)
The part of a road intended for vehicular traffic.
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COBBLED ROAD (4)
A road or street covered with small, rounded cobble stones.
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DROVE ROAD (0)
A road or track specifically used by drovers or herders to drive their animals to market.
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HOLLOW WAY (0)
A way, path or road through a cutting.
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PACKHORSE ROAD (0)
Narrow, rough tracks often over upland routes used by packhorse trains to carry goods.
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TOLL ROAD (5)
A road whose upkeep and repair was financed by the exaction of a toll.
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TRACKWAY (0)
A pathway, not necessarily designed as such, beaten down by the feet of travellers.
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WOODEN ROAD (0)
A road surface made out of wooden blocks or planks. It was much used in English cities before 1940, but the cost of wooden blocks eventually made it uneconomical.
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Taken from the Building Types Thesaurus, (NMR Monument Type Thesaurus). ©2001 English Heritage

 

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