18 ON THE ROMAN MILITARY ROAD 
accurate description, depends upon my own autho- 
rity. Leaving Harwood Fold a few yards to the 
right, the line of the road continues without any 
striking evidences through the fields forward, 
leaving Bank Top to the left, and crossing the 
Preston new road to Whalley, &c. about 300 yards 
east of the Royal Oak Inn. Immediately after 
crossing the road, the lime becomes again conspi- 
cuous on the headland, close to the fence of the 
fields, crosses,an old lane, and falls in with the 
road to Stubby Head, which house stands upon 
it, thence coincides with a deserted lane, which 
has a narrow paved causeway in the middle, again 
appears on the headland, close to the fence of the 
fields at the end of the lane. At last it falls in 
with another old road, leading to a farm house to 
the left, then runs close to a fence again. After- 
wards through two or three fields which were 
ploughed at the time this survey was made, and 
showed a gravelly line throughout, and then dis- 
appearing in the last field on the banks of the 
Ribble, crosses the Ribble about a quarter of a 
mile to the east of Ribchester on the opposite 
bank. 
Such, gentlemen, is the line of the Roman 
military road between Manchester and Ribchester, 
