AN ACCOUNT OF A ROMAN PUBLIC WAY. 5aq 
Hope Hall; and, the other running nearly parallel 
to the Manchester and Liverpool Railway, and 
pointing past Eccles to Barton. 
The annexed trace of the Roman Road, from 
the Ordnance map, was given by Mr. Henry 
Still. 
The Roman Road, as pointed out by Mr. 
Groome, was seen very distinctly, with its broad 
ridge of gravel and stones, on the south side of 
Regent Road, in the first field on the west side 
of Ordsall Farm. These remains of the Roman 
Road were found here by Mr. Groome fifty years 
ago. 
The road was found again, by the gravel, at the 
west end of Hodge-lane, near the brook. And, 
this does not differ much from the line of the road 
given in Mr. Whitaker’s History of Manchester, 
book 1, chap. v., sec. 4, page 210, where he says, 
that the road to Warrington “issued out of the 
“road from Mancliester to Blackrode, about the 
‘termination of Hodge-lane.” 
On the north side of the Liverpool and Man- 
chester Railway, close to Gorton Bridge, at the 
