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| Watling Street | Watling Street | John Fewster | The Road runs in a | Extracts from a Memoir of a Survey of the | ||
| ROMAN ROAD | Watling Street | Revd Richd Marshall | N. Westerly direction through | Watling Street, Durham & Northumberland | ||
| (Site of) | Watling Street | Edward Hunter | the Parish, & the description | by Mr Mac |
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| Watling Street | Maclauchlan’s Memoir of | applies to its whole | "crossing the Derwent , we enter | |||
| Watling Street | extent in the Parish. | Northumberland on the Derwentwater property. | ||||
| Where it crosses the Derwent, appears as little | ||||||
| known on the north side as on the south. | ||||||
| We reach an ascent about 400 yards from | ||||||
| the stream where there are now faint traces | ||||||
| of a stoney ridge – Mr Cuthbert Surtees of | ||||||
| Newcastle stated that an altar was found | ||||||
| on this spot about 60 years ago. | ||||||
| From the ascent before mentioned | ||||||
| the road makes a bend to Whittonstall, and | ||||||
| ran straight, apparently to a slight increase | ||||||
| in the ascent about 1500 yards forward and | ||||||
| thence by a very gentle bend to the westward | ||||||
| straight into Whittonstall. It is visible | ||||||
| where it crosses the present road and enters | ||||||
| the wood called East Woody Pasture, at | ||||||
| the west corner of the field called Holywell | ||||||
| Field, the blacksmith at Newlands points | ||||||
| it out crossing his fields about 100 yards to | ||||||
| the east of the Forge joining the present road | ||||||
| at the turn off |
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| At Whittonstall the present road and Watling Street are | ||||||
| presumed to be the same through the Village, and at the | ||||||
| North end both make a bend to the Eastward, to ease the descent, | ||||||
| indeed the pavement is still visible all the way | ||||||
| up at intervals, as well as in the Village. | ||||||
| At Whittonstall are the remains of a trench and rampart, which | ||||||
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