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The road appears to have joined the Fosse Way near Bourton-on ‑ the ‑ Water.

Starting about two miles north of there, and two miles west of Stow-on-the-Wold, a lane ( Condicott Lane ) runs northwards in a straight line to Condicote and then Hinchwick.

This lane appears to indicate the course of Icknield Street.

It leads towards high ground, about on Bourton Down.

It is not clear how the ascent of from Hinchwick to the Down was made, but on the Down a lane northwards from Springhill takes nearly the same line for to near the Evesham road, from which a parish boundary over Saintbury Hill seems to mark the course down the north side.

On the west side of Weston Park, a line seems to be taken up lying between high ground, to the south, and Alcester, to the north.

A road in this line, passing on the west of Weston-sub ‑ Edge, leads on to a highway with a parish boundary along it called Riknild or Icknield Street, which is crossed by the railway at Honeybourne Station.

It continues northward under the name of Buckle Street to Staple Hill, one mile south of Bidford-on-Avon.

This is probably the oldest version of the name being the modern form of a name Bucgan or Buggilde Street which appears in documents earlier than the Norman Conquest.

As the road approaches Bidford there is a slight turn, and the modern road heads for the crossing point of the medieval bridge whereas the Roman ford is upstream of here and the road name preserved in a small road named Icknield Street on the northern bank.

Evidence of a Roman causeway here confirms this as the Roman crossing point.