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| but about 90 yards on the south of it, in the angle formed by the turnpike road | ||||||
| and the lane running southwest as the Boundary between the Riding and Corbridge, | ||||||
| is a tumulus having much the appearance of being artificial placed at a bend in | ||||||
| the Watling Street, and commanding a view of Corbridge; About 50 yards on the south | ||||||
| of Farnley farm house the Watling Street again appears branching off as it were from | ||||||
| the turnpike road. traces of it may be seen in the fields opposite the houses, where the | ||||||
| tenant described the quantity of stones he has taken from it. It continues its course at | ||||||
| about 100 yards from the turnpike road, on the south of it, till we arrive at Tinkler Bank | ||||||
| where it is about 175 yards to the south, and at about 330yards beyond the turn down | ||||||
| the declivity to Corbridge the Watling Street crosses the turnpike road diagonally and in | ||||||
| a graceful curve descends the only easy declivity along the precipitous bank of | ||||||
| the River Tyne. It seems to have crossed the turnpike road from Corbridge to Hexham, | ||||||
| where the road leaves it to Dilston Hall, and is there lost in the alluvial soil, but | ||||||
| between Farnley and this last point the course was pointed out satisfactorily by | ||||||
| the tenant who has observed it in cultivating the fields and by the person who drained | ||||||
| the land (Messrs Joseph Lee & Thomas Harle.)" | ||||||
| "About half a mile above Corbridge Bridge are some remains of | ||||||
| an ancient Bridge on the south bank, and to these remains the course of the road | ||||||
| seems to tend but no traces whatever now can be seen of it." | ||||||
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