Corpse roads provided a practical means for transporting corpses, often from remote communities, to cemeteries that had burial rights, such as parish churches and chapels of ease.[1] In Britain, such routes can also be known by a number of other names, including bier road, burial road, coffin line, coffin road, corpse way, funeral road, lych way, lyke way, and procession way.[1] Such "church-ways" have developed a great deal of associated folklore regarding ghosts, spirits, wraiths, etc.
- ^ a b Muir, Richard (2008). Woods, Hedgerows and Leafy Lanes. Chalford: Tempus. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-7524-4615-8.