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‘the Ham meadow to, presumably, a bridge in line with it eastward 
of the present bridge, and so over the river to Holloway. The 
direction of Holloway from the hill side, as may be seen to-day, 
is towards such a bridge. To meet the abutment of the later 
bridges the direction of the road has been changed somewhat at 
the extreme bottom of the hill. The position can be clearly seem 
in the outline sketch map here given and in Stukeley’s map- 
printed in 1724. Thus the crossing of the highway always 
looked for in a Roman town, would have been at the junction of 
our High Street and Cheap Street. 
One more suggestion must be made, viz., that the line of our 
Cheap Street, was continued in a straight line to an East Gate which 
stood near the house now known as Nassau House. Hereabouts. 
long years afterwards, just on the boundary of the Priory grounds, 
were the Spring Garden stairs, and a ferry across the river. 
Such an outlet is all the Romans could have had on this side. 
The present East Gate would thus be medieval, and like the 
South Gate, its position was changed when the ground was 
enclosed ; when the site of the ford was wanted by the Priory ; 
when the Monk’s mill and the weirs made with it were built. 
Next an attempt may be made to glance at the interior 
arrangement or plan of the city, and here it must be remembered 
that the Fosse road must have been surveyed or made before the 
city was built ; the city is built on the road, not the road through 
the city ; the direction and position of the road influenced the plan 
and direction of the streets, which would be all parallel with it.. 
However irregular the outline or walls may have been, the streets. 
within were always symmetrical, running parallel with the high 
road as to one direction, and parallel with the main street which. 
always crossed it, in the other. All the streets thus formed ‘a 
rectangle at every junction. There was no deviation from this 
rule. First then must be taken the south eastern quarter of 
which most is known, where existed the fine system of baths, now 
in part visible. Hitherto nothing has been made of the plans of 
