| Coffin Walk or Cattle Walk has
been used by both. It was an obvious way to take livestock to drink in the
river; its other use needs explanation. Iffley Mill levied tolls on people
using the millrace bridge to reach the lock and/or cross the river. Millers
(and their landlords, Lincoln College) were anxious that this route should
not become a right of way; apparently, carrying a corpse across it would
make it so, and they would not allow it. The dead were therefore ferried
across the river and carried up the walk to the church. |
