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Sheet 54 Plan 10 Parish of Longhorsley

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The Devil’s Causeway Devil’s Causeway Mr Patterson About 13 Chains E of This is a portion of the celebrated Roman Road
ROMAN ROAD Devil’s Causeway Mr Telford Todburn called the Devil’s Causeway which branches off
(Remains of) Devil’s Causeway Mr Laughlins Survey Watling Street in a North Easterly direction at a
ROMAN ROAD place called port Gate near Corbridge it keeps
(Remains of) nearly a Northern direction throughout this Parish
and in many places where the ground has been broken
for draining and fencing purposes the paving stones
are quite visible, its course is also tracable through
many of the cultivated fields where it is known by a
slight swell in the ground and a considerable difference
in the appearance of the vegetation along its course,
From the existing remains it appears to have been
about 40 links in width
Linden Gill See Name Book of Sheet 54/3
Edw. Gillespie SRE

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