208 ROMAN MINOR SETTLEMENTS, ETC. 



where it is visible for more than a mile, as far as the water ; here 

 the lane bends to the east, while the Roman way keeps its old 

 north north-east bearing up a field or two, to the lane from 

 Heage to Ripley, this lane it crosses, and goes on to Hartey ; 

 from hence it points to the tail of Hartey dam, and is visible in 

 the hedge of the field near the miller's house. It now runs to 

 Coney-Gre house, crossing two lanes which lead from Pentrich 

 town to the common, and so down to the water, leaving a camp, 

 which is Roman by its form, and was probably a station, a very 

 little to the left. It is again seen on the north side of the water, 

 pointing up the lane to Oakerthorp, but enters the enclosures on 

 the left before it reaches the village, and fragments of its ridge 

 are quite plain in the croft opposite the manor house. (In this part 

 of its course it leaves Alfreton, which some writers supposed it 

 passed through and have even called a station on it, without 

 notice, nearly two miles on its right.) On the other side of 

 Oakerthorp the crest again appears in a line with this ridge, 

 within the left hand fence; it now runs to the four-lane-ends, 

 over the ground on which Kendal's, or the Peacock Inn, stands, 

 and Linbury chapel formerly stood, and where its gravel was dug 

 up in laying the foundation of the summer-house. Traces of 

 buildings, too, have been dug up in Ufton Hall field on the 

 other side of the road, but nothing certain is known about them. 

 It here crosses the present road, and enters the fields on the 

 right, but recrosses it again on the declivity of the hill, and is 

 visible for a mile on the demesne lands of Shirland Hall, called 

 the Day Cars, bearing for Higham. Hence, along the line of 

 the present turnpike-road to Clay Cross, through the village of 

 Stretton, then to Egstow (where is a large barrow), and is quite 

 plain for 300 yards, through some small enclosures (particularly 

 in the Quaker's burying ground) and over a part of Tupton 

 Moor near the blacksmith's forge; and in an old survey of 

 Egstow farm belonging to the Hunloke family, it is, as I have 

 said, expressly described under the name of the Rignal Street. 

 From this spot, which is about twenty miles from Derby, it is no 

 longer visible, but it points, when last seen, directly for the 



