Discussing our town's main thoroughfare recently, I recall that, somewhere in the depths of my memory, one of the earlier Plantagenets legislated that all main highways should have brushwood etc cut back (to 50 feet? yards??) from the route, to deter brigands. Am I correct in my decades-old recollection? Can anyone provide specific information please? A trawl through indexes (without any very specific "tags") has not helped so far. Henry II and Edward I spring particularly to memory but I am far from sure.
Nick Hudd
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