This Trackway, far older than history, would doubtless have perished utterly, as so many of its fellows have done, but for two very different events, the first of which was the Martyrdom of St Thomas, and the other the practice of demanding tolls upon the great new system of turnpike-roads we owe to the end of the eighteenth century.
"England of My Heart--Spring"
Edward Hutton
Thus they sidled slowly onward till it struck her they had been advancing for an unconscionable time-far longer than was usually occupied by the short journey from Chaseborough, even at this walking pace, and that they were no longer on hard road, but in a mere Trackway.
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy
Within the space of a mile from its outskirts every irregularity of the soil was prehistoric, every channel an undisturbed British Trackway; not a sod having been turned there since the days of the Caesars.
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy