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| as a ridge crossing the road from Broomley to Shotley about 150 yards from the turn off. | ||||||
| The line of bearing where the Watling Street joins the road at the turn off to Raw House is | ||||||
| continued along the present road to the town and straight forward down Whiteside Wood where | ||||||
| traces are still to be seen, into an angle of the turnpike road, about 250 yards above the | ||||||
| turnpike gate. Between this and the gate the road seems to cross our line which apparently made | ||||||
| a slight curve into the valley to pass the brook running probably on the west of the | ||||||
| turnpike house, under the school, and close to the small footbridge, if not over it, skirting | ||||||
| the building on the west of the Riding Mills, and by a similar curve regains its line at | ||||||
| the horse trough where the turnpike road crosses it again; and some traces of it may be | ||||||
| seen in the meadow, north of the Mill, opposite the road leading to the Riding Mill Station | ||||||
| on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. Its course thence at the back of the buildings of | ||||||
| Riding House on the east of the present road was pointed out by Thomas March who has long | ||||||
| worked on the farm, and has heard from old people the quantity of stones removed from the line. | ||||||
| It runs straight to the turnpike house at Farnley; and about a furlong before it | ||||||
| reaches that place, its line may be traced across a small rill, where the ground on each side | ||||||
| of it is damp and discoloured, as if the deep lying drain of the road still performs | ||||||
| its office after a lapse of so many centuries: near this we saw it cut a trench to | ||||||
| drain the fields, imperfect but distinguishable. It is necessary to be thus particular | ||||||
| as Armstrong in his Map has carried it further to the westward." | ||||||
| it will be seen from this that the road makes a slight | ||||||
| curve to the westward to cross the Riding Mill Brook or Dipton Burn, and does | ||||||
| not assume its straight course till it has been crossed for some distance by the | ||||||
| present road." Our road joins the turnpike road about 330 yards before we | ||||||
| reach the gate. At Farnley turnpike gate there is no trace of the Watling Street; | ||||||
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