Editing Peddars Way (section)

==Route==
The Peddars Way is 46 miles (74&nbsp;km) long and follows the route of a [[Roman road]]. It has been suggested by more than one writer that it was not created by the Romans but was an  ancient trackway, a branch or extension of the [[Icknield Way]], used and remodelled by the Romans.<ref>{{cite book |last=Maxwell |first=Donald |date=1925 |title=Unknown Norfolk |location=London |publisher=The Bodley Head}}</ref> The name-type, which recurs in medieval records from other parts of East Anglia, derives from Middle English ''pedder'', meaning an itinerant trader. It is first mentioned on a map of 1587 [[AD]]. It starts at [[Knettishall Heath]] in [[Suffolk]] (near the Norfolk-Suffolk border, about {{convert|7|km|0|disp=or|abbr=on}} east of [[Thetford, Norfolk|Thetford]]), and it links with the [[Norfolk Coast Path]] at [[Holme-next-the-Sea]].

Combined with the [[Norfolk Coast Path]], it forms the Peddars Way & Norfolk Coast Path National Trail, one of 15 [[National Trails]] in [[England and Wales]], and the two paths together run for {{convert|133|miles}}.

It is one of four [[long distance footpath]]s which, when combined, run from [[Lyme Regis]] to [[Hunstanton]] and are referred to as the [[Greater Ridgeway]].  At [[Knettishall Heath]] the Peddars Way links with the [[Icknield Way Path]] for 110 miles south west to [[Ivinghoe Beacon]] in Buckinghamshire.<ref name="Icknield Way Path">{{cite web |url=http://www.IcknieldWayPath.co.uk |title=The Icknield Way Path |publisher=Icknield Way Association |access-date=11 May 2020}}</ref>