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| Watling Street | Watling Street | John Forster | The Road runs in a S.W | Extracts from a Memoir of a Survey | ||
| ROMAN ROAD | Watling Street | Revd Richard Marshall | direction through | of the Watling Street, Durham & Northumberland | ||
| (Site of) | Watling Street | Edward Hunter | part of the Parish and this | by Mr Maclauchlan. | ||
| Watling Street | Maclauchlans Memoir of | description applies to its | "Crossing the Derwent we enter | |||
| Watling Street | full extent within the | Northumberland" | ||||
| Parish | "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 brow, and straight forward down Whiteside | ||||||
| Wood, where traces are little 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 in | ||||||
| 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 foot | ||||||
| bridge, if not over it, skirting the building on | ||||||
| the west of the Riding Mills, and by a | ||||||
| similar curve regains its line at the | ||||||
| Horsetrough, 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 & Carlisle Railway | ||||||
| Its course thence, at the | ||||||
| back of the buildings of Riding House on | ||||||
| the | ||||||
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