Ready Token

The crossroads at Ready Token looking towards Fairford.

Ready Token is a hamlet in Gloucestershire, England, located in the Cotswold Hills near Poulton. Despite comprising only a handful of houses it is located at a high point and is notable for being the meeting place of six country roads and nine parish boundaries.[1] It lies at the intersection of the ancient drove road known as the Welsh Way and the Roman Akeman Street.[2] It once possessed an inn, recorded in 1738 as under the sign Ready Token Ash.[3]

The name is a fusion of the Celtic word rhydd and the Saxon word tacen meaning the way to the ford. The ford being that across the River Coln at Fairford.[3]

It is the site of an unusual house which has a butterfly shaped plan which mirrors the local butterfly shaped road pattern. It was designed by the Arts and Crafts movement architect, Norman Jewson, and built in 1928–1929.[4]

References

  1. ^ Aston, Michael Interpreting the Landscape: Landscape Archaeology & Local History, Page 42, Psychology Press, 1997 ISBN 0415151406 [1]
  2. ^ Copeland, Tim, Akeman Street, The History Press, 2009. ISBN 9780752447322
  3. ^ a b Gibbs, J. Arthur, A Cotswold Village Or Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucestershire, Echo Library, 2008, Page 51, ISBN 1406870676 [2]
  4. ^ Owlpen Manor Estate Norman Jewson, architect by Nicholas Mander, 2012, List of architectural works
  • Road travel and transport in Gloucestershire, 1722-1822: extracts - Page 25, N. M. Herbert, Publisher A. Sutton, 1985 [3]

51°44′21″N 1°50′54″W / 51.739109°N 1.84847°W / 51.739109; -1.84847


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