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| ROMAN ROAD | Maiden Way | White’s Directory | 32 Chains West | An Ancient Roman Road entering | ||
| (Site of) | (ROMAN ROAD) | of Lambley Station | this parish at Glendue Burn, then | |||
| Maiden Way | Maiden Way | Mr. Henry Whitfield | extending South Crossing the road leading | |||
| (ROMAN ROAD) | between Alston & Milton, Black Burn | |||||
| Maiden Way | Mr. O. Teasdale | & Hartley Burn. | ||||
| (ROMAN ROAD) | From Glendue Burn it ascends a rather | |||||
| Steep Hill for nearly 1/2 a mile, then | ||||||
| running a little on the East Side of | ||||||
| the water Shedding line on nearly level | ||||||
| ground for a Similar distance, then decend- | ||||||
| ing the Hill to the Township Road. | ||||||
| The above portion of the road is quite | ||||||
| visible (although much grown over with | ||||||
| grass &c) being in Some places Slightly | ||||||
| Sunken beneath the Surface, also in many | ||||||
| instances for a Considerable distance are large | ||||||
| Stones in the Centre & Sides of it | ||||||
| which from their size &c appear | ||||||
| to have formed the Original Road. | ||||||
| although it has been used until | ||||||
| Some 30 years ago. | ||||||
| The present Road | ||||||
| now Occupies its Site to the Stream | ||||||
| Above named ("Black Hartley") | ||||||
| EXTRACT FROM ARCHAEOLOGIA AELIANA VOL 4.P.42. | ||||||
| "The Maiden Way in Lambley | ||||||
| Parish Follows in the present Road | ||||||
| ie. In Halwhistle, up a Short Steep | ||||||
| hill Side – Called the Maiden Way | ||||||
| Bank, and So on to the top of the | ||||||
| Hill | ||||||
| T.O. | ||||||
Note: Not signed but written in the hand of George Davison $Junr$
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Transcribed by PT
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