Wade's Causeway

Wade's Causeway is a Roman road, or possibly a Neolithic structure, located in the North York Moors national park in North Yorkshire, England [1]. The structure has been the subject of local folklore for several hundred years and possibly for more than a millennium [1]. Its construction was commonly attributed to a giant known as Wade, a figure from Germanic mythology [1]. The stretch of the causeway on Wheeldale Moor was cleared of vegetation and excavated in the early twentieth century by a local gamekeeper interested in archaeology [1]. The first modern written record that unquestionably relates to the Wheeldale structure was in 1720 by the antiquarian John Warburton [1].