This and the nearby Maidenway Cottage are named after the Maiden Way which runs nearby. The Maiden Way is a Roman road, which joined Kirby Thore to Carvoran on Hadrian's Wall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maiden_Way
Uploaded to Geograph by Andrew Curtis on 25 September 2015
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