The names of two or three ancient ways end in -(h)ilde, -ield etc:
Icknield Way: Ic(c)enhilde 903 PN Herts 6, BedsHunts
4, Cambs 24
Icknield, Ryknild Street: Worcs 2
Buckle Street: Buggilde
stret 709 Gloucs i.16, Worcs 2.
In northern France many roads (probably mostly Roman) are called Chaussée Brunehaut (see e.g. S. Gendron, La toponymie des voies romaines at médiévales, Errance 2006, p.130). This Germanic name is of course Brunhilde. Could there be any significance in this coincidence?
Keith
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