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Chap. IV. OP MANCHESTER. 1 6$ equally green and dry for twelve or thirteen yards in width, and is Ikirted by a border of ruflies in the wet groufad of eithet fitfe. But it the extremity of this and in the next or Toad-hill Field, and in the field beyond both, the ridge entirely tfifirp* pears, and the road is diicovered only by the fpade in the hifhdt end of the fecond arid at the further end of the third fields, and' by the gravel which the fpade difcovers lying upon the na- tural foil. And here the ridge of the road has been evidently taken away by the farmers, and the materials of it difperfed with an equal hand over a part of the Hoping ground on the right Croffiftg the next field and the lane, the Roman road points though Chorleton Fold and through the ground beyond it to the lane. It there enters the WeftwOod-i fields, aftd appears ag£n. with a final! ridge afoending the (lope of the fecond itfclofuie, andf pointing to a large* oak upon the forzy fummit of it. At that oak. and in the adjoining field Che gravel of the road is very titi&ffl,: lying very thick upon? the road, and Spreading feve&l yafdsin width. It crofles the fetoimJ field of Mr. Bailey m a pbi* ridge and the firii field of Mr. Wstfott ttt a plainer Lofirtg its ridge at this end of M*. Watfta's fecond field, if recovers it .with an additieo a* the other. Kit in the next or Mf. Slomiley's 4ttd^r the gravei of ic appears along. aH the thretr clofes, lying in m tali ridge of ten or twelve yards in width. And in the ad- joining fields of Brookfide eftatc the road ftiU appears, though kfe cenfpkuous, but retaining an evident ridge, and pointing dire&ly by Drywood-houfe to Shaving-lane or Shaving-itrcet 4>out half a mile beyond it. , This name is retained by » dined acid open lane for a mile fid>- gj&thier, and is loft only in the name of Stany-ffcreet a little on ,this fide of Walkden-moor. There the Roman way becomes the preient road, and pafles in a direft line by Street- Yate and Win-Yates towards the village o«f Blackrode. Therd was it dis- covered about fourteen years ago parallel with the prdent road and at a Httle diftance from it, lying a foot below the fuf&oe, covered with