Wade's Causeway

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Wade's Causeway was a Roman road in England. Very few Roman roads have survived in anything like their original condition, and even then only for very short stretches - Wade's Causeway is widely regarded as the best-preserved in Britain. Its route ran from Dunsley Bay via Cawthorne to Malton in Yorkshire. From Malton, roads seem to have run via Stamford Bridge to York and via Millington and Londesborough to Market Weighton. Another route appears to have led from Stamford Bridge to Fridaythorpe and on to the Yorkshire coast.

The origins of the road's name are uncertain but may derive from the god Woden. An old Yorkshire legend also held that the road was made by the giant, Wadda, to help his wife cross the moors to milk her cows.