Transport in the Kingsclere Area
The early history of roads and tracks near Kingsclere is obscure. Timperley and Brill show and describe a North Hants Ridgeway running along the top of the downs but the basis on which they arrived at their conclusions has been called into question on the grounds that there are not really clusterings of pre-historic sites along the ridges, and that more recent work has shown that most prehistoric settlements were actually in the valleys on what must have been better land even in those days. Later we know that the Roman road from Silchester to Old Sarum ran across the south of the parish, but its course was not such as to be of much interest to the people of Kingsclere, and only a short length, called la Stoynystrete c.1300, seems to have survived as a highway into the middle ages and beyond, but that is really the extent of our knowledge before the medieval period.