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Caledonian Railway Company having made no provision whatever 
for the public. Under the circumstances it has been robbed of its 
rural character, by the fact that you have to pick your way over a 
dozen lines of rails, and at the same time keep a sharp lookout for 
engines and stray railway waggons. Let us in imagination take a 
walk outside the city of Carlisle, on a pleasant evening in medieval 
times. We pass through the gate at the Citadel, and get on to one 
of our old roads, old even then. One is now known as the Collier 
Lane, the oldest highway into the city of Carlisle that I know of. 
We pass on, leaving the Water Gate Lonning on our right, and so 
on over what is now Lancaster Street, past the Hospital for Lepers, 
which is still known as Old St. Nicholas, and near what is now 
known as Regent Street, to a point at Millholme Bank, formerly 
an inn, where even to-day you can find the old road, with little 
change from medieval times, coming out at what is now the low 
end of the village of Upperby. 
In other words, you have the old road which was there before 
the time of the Romans, from Millholme Bank to Upperby, 
and it has undergone little if any change. From about Regent 
Street to Millholme Bank it has been diverted and lost, other roads 
being substituted. But up the Collier Lane it is again original, over 
the same land, so far as I can make out. I venture to say, without 
much fear of contradiction, that the Collier Lane has been a road 
for two thousand years. Aye, when Botchergate was green fields, 
and the populous district in the rear of the station was only 
disturbed by the citizens taking their “dander” along the Water 
Gate Lonning. 
To the north of the city you would pass out over the old bridges, 
past the end of the houses called Eden Terrace, coming out nearly 
opposite Stanwix Church. Upon the banks you can distinctly see 
the track of the old road to the north. This track, and that down 
the river at Etterby Wath, were the only roads leading north until 
comparatively modern times, when the new bridge was built, and 
the great road to Scotland opened out. I have no time to say 
anything about them ; they would form an excellent subject for a 
