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I had wondered if there were any relation to The Ridgeway in Enfield. Perhaps there are many ridgeways.
by yakshaving_jgt 2y ago
I had wondered if there were any relation to The Ridgeway in Enfield. Perhaps there are many ridgeways.
- zeristor 2y agoThere’s Ridgeway Park in Chingford, I guess it’s at a top of a steep rise from the river Lea.
- ralferoo 2y agoI was going to flippantly reply that of course, it's just the name of a type of road. But then I thought to check Wikipedia [1] about it first. Quite interesting: > In western Europe, [...] ridgeways are a typical feature of long-distance ancient routes through rugged, high-rainfall parts of Germany and across the island of Great Britain. These ancient trackways generally ran along the hilltops, only descending when necessary to cross valleys. > As such, they are an opposite to modern-style roads, which tend to run along the valleys and only ascend when necessary to cross the hilltops. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridgeway_(road) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridgeway_(road)
- yakshaving_jgt 2y agoGenuinely, I appreciate you checking your flippancy. I have the same tendency, as does, I suppose, a whole bunch of people on this website. And I agree, that is quite interesting. It holds true for The Ridgeway in Enfield (which incidentally is where I was born, which is why I thought of it).