The Bullock Road
The Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire) Bullock Road runs for c.18km from the Elton to Alwalton road west of Peterborough, mainly along high land between 50-60m, south to Upton near Alconbury. From here it may have joined Ermine Street to Huntingdon and probably on to St Ives, which had held a Bullock market in Front Street until 1886, or continued further south. [1] The present road is a mainly tarmacked, sometimes single-track road. It may have remained as an entirely green lane until the 20th century, with some sections towards the south remaining so. These are subject to Traffic Regulation Orders (TRO), where gates or barriers may be locked shut, for vehicles of more than two wheels during the winter. Locked TRO gate on the Bullock Road at Great Gidding. (Photo: Google Earth). Originally the road may have continued north of the Elton Road to reach Wansford. Perhaps it followed the Great North Road, which diverged from the Roman Ermine Street at Water Newton. [2] Christopher