NHER 24409 (Monument record) - Cropmarks of trackway of medieval or earlier date

4 July 1987. BKS Air Photography for Norfolk County Council Vertical Air Survey No. 0204.
Positive cropmarks.
Two parallel cropmarks of flanking ditches of trackway (extending one on Ordnance Survey map) to cropmarks of removed field boundary at TF 9763 3753.
D. Edwards (NAU) 3 March 1988.

See photocopy in file.

The trackway is certainly late medieval or earlier. It occurs several times in a Hindringham field book of 1486-7 where it is named (in Latin) “common way from Hindringham to Wighton” & “King’s highway from Netherthorpe to Lyttelker” (NRO DCN 52/53).
The roadway is clearly shown on a map of 1739 and named Green Way (NRO DCN 127/75).
It is shown as non-public on an enclosure-related map of public & private roads in Hindringham dated 1816 (NRO BR 90/36/23).
It does not appear on the Enclosure Award map of the same year (see Norfolk Historic maps). A short length at the SE end is a track & footpath today.
A. Rogerson (HES), 23 June 2020.