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The Banks (Devils Highway)

Trodden on by Romans and the trek originates from the Celts, this trek followed from Modern Oxford Street-Notting Hill-Shepard’s Bush-Goldhawk rd-Turnham Green-Hounslow, -Stains-A30,- Bagshot-Crowthorn-Finchampstead -Thatcher's Ford-Stratified Saye -Silchester THE DEVILS HIGHWAY

The devils highway

known as banks or even imperial way is a roman road from Oxford Street in London to Silchester in Hampshire. The road was first surveyed in 1836 by Wellington College.

The area was called frith with wild boar, wolves and deer, the Celts created the first treks over this country, leaving holed stone on trees to appease Briged the goddess of nature in Celtic times. The Romans built the road from 130 Ad and lead to Calleva Atrebatum, It was first written about at the time of the road building 140 Ad by antonine iti reraries in the document Iters V11 and XV. In Saxon times the first thought when tribes first saw the road was created by a grim (demon) Two tribes were split by road Raedingas from Berkshire and basingas in Hampshire. Hence the towns of reading and Basingstoke today. Bramnut (talk) 18:11, 22 June 2009 (UTC)