534 AN ACCOUNT OF A ROMAN PUBLIC WAY. 
Very distinct traces of this Road still remain 
in Worsley Park, on Moseley Common, near 
Cleworth Hall, on Little Shakerley Common, at 
Gadbury Fold, at Caer Common, Lord Street, 
and on Amberswood Common. 
A straight line drawn from the Roman Road 
at Hope Hall, to the Roman Station at the Castle 
Field, in Manchester, would cross the Irwell 
nearly at Woden’s Ford. In Mr. Baines’s 
history of this county, division 5, page 165, we 
find, from Mr. Barritt’s collections, that it is said 
in an old writing, that ‘‘ Woden’s Ford is a paved 
“ causeway across the river Irwell, from Hulme 
‘Field, where the Medlock loses itself in the 
‘‘ aforesaid river, to the opposite bank; but now 
<‘lost to the observer, since the Irwell was made 
“navigable.” There is little doubt, that this was 
the ford across the Irwell, on the Roman Road, 
from Manchester to Wigan; and, that this Road 
and Ford were adopted by the Saxons, and, called 
Woden’s Ford. 
Instead, however, of taking the Road directly 
by Woden’s Ford, from Mancunium to Coccium, 
Mr. Whitaker takes it a mile on the road to 
Kinderton, to the Ford of the Irwell, at Old 
