There's a column-statue on a hill in rural Wiltshire (England) of a widowed trader named Maud Heath who made a causeway for traders to get to and from their nearest market town. The details of the story vary depending on the source or people you talk to, but wikipedia has most common parts of the bare bones of the history there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Heath%27s_Causeway