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Parish of Lambley

List of Names as written on the Plan	Various modes of Spelling the same Names	Descriptive Remarks, or other General Observations which may be considered of Interest
[#]	Maiden Way	Hill about 150 yards except at the top
	(ROMAN ROAD)	of the first Steep Brow where the
		present road turns abruptly to the
		right and turns again Close by on
		the Side of the is a House Called the
		Maiden Way House, Said to have
		been built on the old Way, but
		probably on the West if it."
		From the last hill top
		probably through the pasture on the
		right, but in the present devious
		Steep and awkward road, but in a
		fine slope towards the Cow Mill in
		the Hollow, Crossing <u>Killa Burn</u>
		and the Black Burn, on the right
		of Mill, and along the present road
		up the Steep bank on the Side."
		"Along the present road for
		more than a mile in a Straight line
		to the Alston turnpike road leading to
		Milton which it Cuts at right angles"
		"It Crosses the Burn after
		making a Slight turn to the right
		to avoid the Steep descent and ascent
		passes the Public House close
		by the the turnpike road ten or
		twelve yards on the West."
		The old road from Alston to
		the Coal pits here, used up to the year
		1824, now grassed over, is upon the
		Maiden Way to within half a mile of
		Burnstones."
		Up a Steepish hill on
		the unenclosed waste part of Tindale
		Fell for a mile directly South, SEE PAGE 5
		then

Note: Not signed but written in the hand of George Davison $Junr$

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