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Ambridge Marks Tey history
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Description of the history and layout of Mark Tey from Bryan Ambridge’s school project.
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Marks Tey has been on the map for several hundred years. The hall was built in 1307, but the A120 is also known a STANE STREET, a Roman Road.
Before 1970 Marks Tey was notorious for its traffic jam as the A120 and A12 joined together at the roundabout, similar to the Flyover Nurseries up until then the village was a linear village (long and thin) as you can see from this newspaper cutting.
Concentrated around the school. It may have been a linear type to start with, but since the increase in traffic, Marks Tey has seen a lot of…