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were neither surveying for a rail-road line, nor 
for levying any rate, but merely for a road that 
had been, he told us ‘Then owd felly ’s reet, for 
he used to sey ot Pack Horses com throo’t fowt 
formerly.” And who is the old man? we in- 
quired. ‘Whoy he’s me feyther, an’ it wur his 
feyther, that’s my gronfeyther, ot towd him hor- 
ses com atween Blackburn and Manchester.” 
And during the last fortnight I was informed by 
an old man at Meadow Croft, that in the time of 
his father, many portions of the agger of the 
Roman road were carted away; the stones for 
draining the meadow below, near the brook; and 
the gravel to the road which passes the premises. 
Likewise he said that he had been told, that that 
road was the oldest one in the country; that it 
eame along by the Heyts in Offyside, went 
through Starling and crossed the ford of the 
Irwell, a little below the meeting of the waters 
of the Roach. To repeated questions what was 
the name of the road through Offyside, I was 
answered ‘‘Wadling Street, it’s coen Street, fur 
it wur paved formerly.” 
Such are the scanty materials of the information 
which I have to lay before you at present, little, 
indeed, in comparison of what remains to be 
