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(Plan II.)
The cardinal-point alinements are marked “Grid.”
| 8 | Whaddon Church—Hoback Farm Moat—Harston road-junction—Camp north of Shelford—Fulbourn Church—Great Wilbraham Church—Church in Newmarket. |
| 9 | Moat near Guilden Morden—Wendy Moat—Wimpole circular pond—Orwell Church—Harlton Church—On part of Newmarket Road, Cambridge—Barnwell ancient Chapel—Fen Ditton Church. |
| 10 | Ancient Church, Malton Farm—Little Shelford Church—Great Shelford Church—Centre of Vandlebury CampWandlebury Ring—Six-Mile-Bottom cross roads—(Hill House Farm)—Cheveley Castle. |
| 11 | Tadlow Moat—(Fox Hill)—Trumpington Church—Cherry Hinton Church—Beacon Farm—On two miles of Icknield Way. |
| 12 | Great Eversden Church—Little Eversden Church—N. vallum of Shelford Camp—Tumulus on Copley Hill—The Tower, 348ft.—Bit of road at Weston Colville—Cross-roads and Church at Carlton. |
| 13 (Grid) | Little Gransden Church—Kingston Church—Comberton Church—Barton Church—Fulbourn Church—Fulbourn Moat. |
| 14 (Grid) | Caxton Gibbet cross-roads—Hardwick Moat—Great St. Mary’s Church and Market Hill, Cambridge—Petty Cury cross-roads—Teversham Church—Little Wilbraham Churchyard (north side)—Centre of the circular enclosure of Allington Hill—Five-ways crossroads at Stetchworth—Stetchworth village road-junction. |
| 15 (Grid) | Road-junction, Papworth—Boxworth Church—Noon Folly Farm—Oakington Church—Landbeach Moat—Cross-roads, Waterbeach. |
| 16 | Four Miles of Ermine Street, ending at Caxton Gibbet—Kingston Wood Moat—(Field Barn)—Melbourn Bury—Munsey Farm—Barley Church. |
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| 17 | ConningtonConington Church—Moat at Lolworth—Girton Church—Arbury Camp—2¼ miles of Fleam Dyke—Six-Mile-Bottom cross-roads—The Chantry. |
| 18 (Grid) | Noon Folly Farm, Lolworth—Goffer’s Knoll—Noon’s Folly Farm, Royston—High point near Barley. |
| 19 | Exning Church—The Abbey, StaffhamSwaffham Prior—Anglesea Abbey—On a mile of Chesterton Road—Great Mound of Cambridge Castle. |
| 20 | West Wickham Moat—Mark’s Grave cross-roads—Field path for ¾ mile—Linton Church—1½ miles of straight road—Chishall Down Hill-point, 451ft.—Hill-point near Barley. |
| 21 | Church at Sturmer Hall—Moat at Horsham Hall—326ft. Hill-point, Ashton—Elmdon Church—Cross-roads, Chrishall—Great Chishall Church. |
| 22 (Grid) | Stream-crossing at Steeple Bumpstead—Helion Moat—Goldstones—Heavy Hill, 331ft.—Burloes (ancient burials at this hill-farm)—Tumuli, Thursfield Down—Site of ancient Cemetery—The Bury, Ashwell. |
| 23 | Shudy Camps Church—Hildersham Church—Half-mile of field road—Trumpington Church—Grandchester Church. |
| 24 | Latchley’s Farm Moat—Helion Moat—Castle Camps Moat—Castle Camps Church—Bartlow Church—Linton Church. |
| 25 (Grid) | Helion Moat—Road-junction, Carlton Green—Cross-roads and Church, Carlton—Moat below Burrough Green—Moat—One-third-mile village road at Stetchworth, and road-junction. |
| 26 (Grid) | 420 hill-point, Pen Hills—South End and ¼ mile of road, BassinbournBassingbourn—North End and ¾ mile of field road, BassinbournBassingbourn—Kingston Wood Moat—Road-junction, Bourn—Tumulus N. of Bourn |
| 27 (Grid) | Cold Harbour—Hatley Gate—1¼ miles of track—Little Gransden Church—Great Gransden Church—Moat below EltesleyEltisley—Papworth St. Agnes Church. |
| 28 | North Edge of Arbury Camp—Tumulus near Morden Grange—Two tumuli—Royston Church—On two miles of Icknield Way—Noon’s Folly Point—Tumulus on Bartlow Hills. |
| 29 | Tumulus at Melbourn—Little Trees Hill—centre of Vandlebury CampWandlebury Ring—Moat at Fulbourn—Great Wilbraham Church. |
| 30 (Grid) | Hatley Gate—Hoback Farm—Newton Church—On a “dog’s leg” in a road near Newton—On ¼ mile of road at Sawston—Sawston Church—Little Abington Church—West Wickham Church. |
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| 31 (Grid) | Bridge-crossing of river Cam—Northend place and bit of road—326 hill-point near Park Farm—Cross-roads (a nodal-point) near Pampisford Station—North Hills, a farm-homestead. |
| 32 (Grid) | Mortimers—Ashdon Church—Centre of Allington Hill—Tumulus 4/10ths mile N. of Hill—Road-Gap in Devils Dyke—Road-junction near Burwell. (Also confirmed by going through crossing-points of other alinements at 12 mile-stone near Linton, and in Borden Wood.) |
SOME CHARACTERISTICS.
Nos. 8, 9, 23, and 30 are four-church alinements with other good mark-points.
No. 13 is a five-church alinement, with another good mark-point, a moat.
Nos. 11, 12, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, and 30 all have straight bits of lengths or present-day road or track on the line, these surviving fragments of the original track.
The only “Beacon” place-name has a track (No. 11) through it. It is probable that the name does not signify an actual fire-beacon at this spot, but that the place was alined to a beacon.
Great Shelford and Little Shelford; Great Gransden and Little Gransden; and Great Eversden and Little Eversden are churches respectively linked up by track alinements.
Although farms are often ancient sites and good mark-points for tracks, they have not been ringed and accepted as such except in a few cases with convincing ancient place-names. Noon Folly and Hoback Farms were confirmed by two tracks alining through them.
“Goldstones” in its name indicated ancient mark-stones, and this was confirmed by two distinct tracks coming through the spot.
Convincing fragments of confirmation came in drawing up the map when bits of present day road seem to come out of their way to shape themselves to the old track. This is seen in the dog-leg on No. 30, and the curious straight fragment at Weston Colville in No. 20.
Most convincing of all were the cases where two distinct tracks, each indicated by a string of mark-points, found their way to an evidently commanding hill-point, marked on the Ord. map with its height. This occurred to Chrishall Down, 451ft., Pen Hills, 420 ft., and a 298ft. point near the lower VIA DEVANA.
GRID OF CARDINAL-POINT ALINEMENTS.
This is made up of the following Nos.:—
North and South: Nos. 27, 26, 18, 31, 32 and 25.
East and West: Nos. 15, 14, 13, 30 and 22.
