Caps Lane

 

Caps lane is one of the older roads of Cholsey and the original way you would have gone to Wallingford before they built the new road. I have part from the Wallinford Road end, this week I will show it to you from the Reading Road side

We start here which I did show last week, this was the old entrance to Caps Lane from the Toll Road

From there you just follow the road past some cottages and stables 

You will come to a series of bends a little further along

which comes out nearer houses and the entrance to the Mill

Over to the left of the road near here there used to be a track that linked up with Ilgies Lane, it is shown on very old maps but went into decline around when the enclosures act came into being 

It most likely went across the road to take people along here to the water mill that is along here. There was around three in the village but this one is the only one that remains. Might add it is privately owned and I have never seen it

Walk on along here 

You pass this cottage along the way which is called Field Cottage

A little past the cottage if you look back you can see you have gone downhill

Looking on you see another bend

Where you walk past Blackhalls Barn which has been converted into a house now

That it, a little further and you turn right towards the Wallingford road. This part is new but I thing some of it was farm track once as was part of the lane I just walked. Behind me is the Track I took up along a few weeks ago. I will show what has changed since then next week

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