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| the East of the present road was pointed out by | ||||||
| Thomas March, who has long worked on the [F???en] | ||||||
| and has heard from Old People the quantity | ||||||
| of Stones removed from the line. It runs | ||||||
| straight to the turnpike House at Farnley’s | ||||||
| and about 4 furlongs 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 performed its office, | ||||||
| after a lapse of so many Centuries; near this | ||||||
| he saw it cut by a trench to drain the fields, | ||||||
| imperfect, but distinguishable. It is necessary | ||||||
| to be thus particular, as Armstrong has | ||||||
| carried it in his map, 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 line joins the turnpike | ||||||
| road about 330 Yards before we reach the | ||||||
| gate. At Farnley turnpike gate there is | ||||||
| no trace of the Watling Street, but about | ||||||
| 90 Yards on the south of it, in the angle | ||||||
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