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The same place appears in the map given in Murray's Handbook of Belgium under the orthography of Kalten-herberg.

But let me not omit to note the existence of that old trackway which passes in a southerly direction by Cold Arbour, and which, in all reasonable probability, the early Britons made, and their Roman and Saxon conquerors afterwards used. If we wend our way up this lane from Cold Harbour, we soon arrive at the commencement of that portion of it where it is considerably sunk below the surface of the adjacent ground, and when we are nearly arrived at Beggar's Bush it joins the "Mear Bank," or ancient raised ridge, now dividing the parishes of Croydon and Beddington; here, there is little doubt, were placed the old Saxon mear or markstones, once commonly set up to mark boundaries. Thence, descending the hill to Foxley gate, this old road (which from a remote period has here formed the boundary of Croydon and Beddington parishes^[1]) leads the way to the remains of other ancient trackways, dykes, and banks. The ancient British Ermyn Street, in fact, appears to have extended in this direction from Pevensey on the Sussex coast, passing near Croydon, to London. The "Stane Street" of the Romans, which extended from Chichester to London, passed through Coulsdon. At the entrance of Far-