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Maud Heath's Causeway

Maud Heath's Causeway is a pavement dating from the 15th century, near Chippenham in Wiltshire, England. Its route includes a 19th-century brick structure which is Grade II* listed.

Monuments
Near the east bank of the Avon at , a three-metre high carved stone pillar with sundials, dated 1698, is inscribed "To the memory of the worthy Maud Heath of Langly Burrell Widow who in the year of Grace 1474 for the good of travellers did in Charity bestow in Lands and houses about Eight pounds a year for ever to be laid out on the Highways and Causey leading from Wick Hill to Chippenham Clift". A roadside marker stone near the eastern terminus at Wick Hill near Bremhill, at about southeast of the Avon crossing, carries an iron plate inscribed "From this Wick-Hill/begins the praise/Of Maud Heath's gift/To these highways". Further up the hill stands Maud Heath's Monument, a statue of the eponymous lady, erected on a high column in 1838 and looking out over the river and its floodplain. The statue, in a bonnet and authentic plebeian clothes from the reign of Edward IV, was erected by Lord Lansdowne and features a poem by the critic William Lisle Bowles, who was vicar of Bremhill at the time, which reads: ==References==
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