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[[File:Reek_Moat_Cailin_MarcSimonetti.jpg|thumb|340px|right|[[Theon Greyjoy]] riding on the causeway near to [[Moat Cailin]] - by Marc Simonetti ©]]
The '''causeway''' is a stretch of the [[kingsroad]] in the [[north]]. It provides the only dry passage through the bogs and swamps of the [[Neck]].{{ref|AGOT|15}}{{ref|ADWD|20}}

==Geography==
The causeway is a raised log-and-plank road{{ref|AGOT|55}}, crooked{{ref|AGOT|15}} and rotting.{{ref|ADWD|20}} East of the road is a bleak and barren shore and the cold salt sea of the [[Bite]], while to the west are the swamps and bogs of the [[Neck]], impassible and deadly.{{Ref|ADWD|20}} At the northern end of the causeway, the three remaining towers of [[Moat Cailin]] are positioned so that any enemy coming up from the south must pass beneath and between them. Even a small garrison at the Moat can play havoc with any army coming up the causeway.{{ref|AGOT|55}}{{Ref|ADWD|20}}

==Recent Events==
===''A Game of Thrones''===
When the retinue of King [[Robert I Baratheon]] returns to [[King's Landing]] from [[Winterfell]], [[Sansa Stark]] dislikes traveling on the causeway.{{ref|AGOT|15}}

The [[north]]ern army of [[Robb Stark]] marches south along the causeway to rescue Lord [[Eddard Stark]].{{ref|AGOT|56}} Robb then divides his forces at the [[Twins]].{{ref|AGOT|59}}

Following the [[battle on the Green Fork]], Lord [[Roose Bolton]] reforms his host of northmen at the mouth of the causeway.{{ref|AGOT|71}}

===''A Clash of Kings''===
While Robb is fighting in southern [[Westeros]] during the [[War of the Five Kings]], Lord [[Balon Greyjoy]] sends his brother [[Victarion Greyjoy|Victarion]] with the [[Iron Fleet]] to [[Fall of Moat Cailin|capture Moat Cailin]] and block Robb from retreating on the causeway.{{ref|ACOK|24}}

===''A Storm of Swords''===
[[House Frey]] abandons Robb's cause after he weds [[Jeyne Westerling]] instead of a daughter of Lord [[Walder Frey]]. Robb fears that if he marches north on the causeway, he will be caught between Freys and Victarion's [[ironborn]].{{ref|ASOS|14}}

For his planned [[siege of Moat Cailin]], Robb intends to have Lord Bolton and the [[Jon Umber|Greatjon]] lead two hosts up the causeway. Meanwhile, Robb would lead a third northern host through the swamps of the [[Neck]] with the aid of the [[crannogmen]], and then reappear north of the Moat to surpise the ironborn.{{ref|ASOS|45}} Robb is betrayed in the [[Red Wedding]] and killed at the Twins before he can put his plan into effect, however.{{ref|ASOS|51}}

===''A Dance with Dragons''===
Lord Bolton leads an army of mostly [[House Frey|Freys]] and [[House Bolton|Boltons]] north on the causeway toward Moat Cailin.{{ref|ADWD|20}} After [[Theon Greyjoy]] negotiates the surrender of the ruined castle, [[Ramsay Snow|Ramsay Bolton]] has the ironborn garrison flayed and their corpses displayed along the causeway. Ramsay sends riders south on the causeway to inform his father that it is safe to reach Moat Cailin.{{ref|ADWD|20}}

==Quotes==
{{Quote|They had been twelve days crossing the [[Neck]], rumbling down a crooked causeway through an endless black bog, and she had hated every moment of it. The air had been damp and clammy, the causeway so narrow they could not even make proper camp at night, they had to stop right on the [[kingsroad]].{{ref|AGOT|15}}|thoughts of [[Sansa Stark]]}}

{{Quote|The only dry road through the [[Neck]] was the causeway, and the towers of [[Moat Cailin]] plugged its northern end like a cork in a bottle.{{ref|ADWD|20}}|thoughts of [[Theon Greyjoy]]}}

==References==
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[[Category:The Neck]]
[[Category:Places in the North]]
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