A salty tale continued: The track leads from the river up Church Lane, past the landmark ancient yew trees (authenticated by David Bellamy and others as being 1500 years old) and eastwards on to Clee Hill. One theory, supported by many place names incorporating the word white (or variations of), is that this track was an ancient ‘white way’, with donkey trains carrying valuable salt from the salt mines of Droitwich. The ‘modern’ bridge over the River Teme, designed and built by Thomas Telford as part of the new turnpike system, was opened in 1797. > The Domesday book > Go back