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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough

A canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: 'In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed.'

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King Street

Ancaster Peterborough Lolham Bridges Kates Bridge Bourne Abbey, Lincolnshire Cawthorpe Stainfield, South Kesteven Hanby, South Kesteven Sapperton, South Kesteven

King Street is in Roman Roads.

Around 50AD. Ancaster [Map] was the junction of Ermine Street and King Street. During the Romano-British period, the Romans built a roadside settlement on the site of a

King Street is a Roman Road between Peterborough [Map] and Ancaster [Map] where it joins Ermine Street 2. It is numbered 26 in Ivan Margary's book 'Roman Roads in Britain'.

From Peterborough [Map] it travels north through Lolham Bridges [Map] crossing the River Glen at Kates Bridge [Map], through Bourne where Bourne Abbey, Lincolnshire [Map] was later built. The road continues through Cawthorpe [Map], Stainfield, South Kesteven [Map], Hanby, South Kesteven [Map], Sapperton, South Kesteven [Map] before reaching Ermine Street 2 south of Ancaster [Map].