4 ON THE ROMAN MILITARY ROAD 
Terrace.” Continuing hence on the right of the 
present road, the line of the Roman road crosses 
the modern road a little beyond Broughton lane 
end, passes through the lawns in front of the 
houses on the bank of the Irwell, and at a short 
distance further again crosses the Bury road into 
the fields to the right, in which, (a little beyond 
the Toll-gate at the corner of Kersall Moor,) 
slight traces again are evident. After crossing 
another time the Bury road to the left, it coin- 
cides with the same, as far as the same keeps a 
straight line, to Prestwich. 
From the Zoological Gardens to Prestwich was 
an ancient road, destroyed when the present 
turnpike road was made, probably on the very 
line of the Roman road, and a portion of the same, 
slight traces of which ancient road are yet evi- 
dent near Pilkington Old Hall beyond Prestwich. 
Across the fields, between the Old Hall and 
Higher-lane, not a trace of the Roman road is 
visible. Remains are, however, discernible when 
we arrive at the houses at Higher-lane, where the 
line there coincides with the present road past 
Park Gate, in a straight line, till we come oppo- 
site Stand Church, where there is an angle in the 
present road at the intersection of the Whitefield 
