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Corpse road
Corpse roads provided a practical means for transporting corpses, often from remote communities, to cemeteries that had burial rights, such as parish churches and chapels of ease.〔Muir, Richard (2008), ''Woods, Hedgerows and Leafy lanes.'' Pub. Tempus. Chalford. ISBN 978-0-7524-4615-8. P. 163.〕 In Britain, such routes can also be known by a number of other names: bier road, burial road, coffin road, coffin line, lyke or lych way, funeral road, procession way, corpse way,〔 etc. Such "church-ways" have developed a great deal of associated folklore regarding wraiths, spirits, ghosts, etc.
==Origins==
In late medieval times a population increase and a concomitant expansion of church building took place in Great Britain inevitably encroaching on the territories of existing mother churches or minsters. Demands for autonomy from outlying settlements made minster officials feel that their authority was waning, as were their revenues, so they instituted corpse roads connecting outlying locations and their mother churches (at the heart of parishes) that alone held burial rights. For some parishioners, this decision meant that corpses had to be transported long distances, sometimes through difficult terrain: usually a corpse had to be carried unless the departed was a wealthy individual. An example would be the funeral way that runs from Rydal to Ambleside in the Lake District where a coffin stone (''illustrated above right''), on which the coffin was placed while the parishioners rested, still exists.〔(The Rydal Coffin stone )〕 Many of the 'new' churches were eventually granted burial rights and corpse roads ceased to be used as such.
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