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the road falls in with that which passes through 
Offyside, and which retains the name of Watling- 
street until this day. Watling-street, or Raikes 
as it was also called, keeps an almost undeviating 
straight line for about a mile, until it reaches the 
Bull’s Head Inn, towards Edgworth. 
So far extends the sketch of the line and re- 
mains of the Roman road which accompany this 
paper, and which is intended to illustrate the 
preceding account, as well as to be a guide for 
any future investigator. Mere verbal accounts 
are of little use as directions, as I have found; 
besides there are oftentimes discrepancies which 
are apt to perplex and mislead. I now will give 
what corroborating testimony I have been able to 
pick up by inquiries, during my researches. They 
are traditionary in some instances, and therefore 
not wholly correct, for tradition, though originally 
truth, blends error, and exaggerations, and extra- 
neous facts with it. First, then, when enquiring 
if any account of the line of the road had been 
preserved in Radcliffe, I was answered there was 
one in the plan of the print works occupied by 
Mr. James Hutchinson and Sons. I applied to one 
of the young gentlemen engaged in the works, 
and was very politely allowed to examine the plan. 
