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The Strange History of Sight Lines

“Already in 1285 central government intervention decreed in the Statute of Winchester that a passage should be cleared for two hundred feet on each side of the road ’so that their neither be dyke nor bush whereby a man may lurk to do hurt’ — a provision of sight-lines on a scale even dwarfing that of modern motorways.”

That’s from Sylvia Crowe’s The Landscape of Roads, 1960.

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  1. chris Says:
    October 21st, 2008 at 4:12 pm

    Google Books is terrific for this kind of stuff:

    http://books.google.com/books?lr=&ei=sVL-SLOxLJDwsgPk4_DrDA&client=safari&as_brr=0&q=%22whereby+a+man+may+lurk+to+do+hurt%22+date%3A1800-1825&btnG=Search+Books

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