Memoir Written During a Survey of the Watling Street: From the Tees to the Scotch Border, in ... 1850 and 1851 ... |
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... Brancepeth ; and being at first on the south side it crosses the turnpike road diagonally apparently , and leaves it where the present road makes a slight inclination to the southward . It has lately been dug up in one of the ...
... Brancepeth ; and being at first on the south side it crosses the turnpike road diagonally apparently , and leaves it where the present road makes a slight inclination to the southward . It has lately been dug up in one of the ...
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... Brancepeth . Proceeding across West Brandon Farm , it may be indistinctly traced in the second field from the road , by the dryness of the pasture and the rushes growing on each side of it , by the stones ploughed up further on , and by ...
... Brancepeth . Proceeding across West Brandon Farm , it may be indistinctly traced in the second field from the road , by the dryness of the pasture and the rushes growing on each side of it , by the stones ploughed up further on , and by ...
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50 yards acres ancient angle Antiq appears ascends Auckland bend Binchester Birdhope Bishop Auckland Brancepeth Bremenium Brit British brook Broomley Brusselton called Camden centre Chew Green Colcester conjectured Corbridge Corsenside course Crag curve declivity Devil's Causeway Dilston Hall distance ditch Durham east side eastward Ebchester Elsdon entrance entrenchment faint traces Farm farm-house feet field Foulplay furlongs gate gateway Gaunless Golden Pot ground height Hodgson Horsley Hutchinson hypocaust Lanchester Leadgate Longovicum Mackenzie's Hist Map-Sheet miles Moor nearly north front north-west Northumberland originally pass Pierse Bridge plough present road presumed rampart rectangular Rede remains Riding Mill right-lined Risingham river river Rede river Wear Rochester Roman camp Roman wall Rowley Roy's Milit runs seems probable seen south-west spot Stagshaw Bank station stones straight line stream summit supposed Surtees Swinburne Castle traverse in front tumulus turnpike turnpike-road visible Watling Street west front west side westward Whittonstall