I need to research this further, as I’ve not found anything to substantiate this at all, but I think that there is sometimes a link between the name ‘Kings Way’ and the route that was taken by Charles II when he escaped to France, after being defeated by Oliver Cromwell.
This would fit very roughly with one part of his journey – on the 6th October 1651 the King travelled from Trent House, near Yeovil to Heale House, which is between Salisbury and Amesbury, in the Avon Valley 1
Footnotes
- The Escape of Charles Stuart After Worcester by Chris Modd, Orders of the day, Volume 33, Issue 4, 2001 [↩]
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