2IO ROMAN MINOR SETTLEMENTS, ETC. 



Beighlon, whilst on the Yorkshire side of the river near that 

 place, there are some faint vestiges of intrenchments, which may 

 be of Roman origin. It is, however, a distinct road from that 

 running between Little Chester and Templeborough. 



The road between Buxton and Little Chester is probably the 

 next in importance. From the accounts of the road by the Bishop 

 of Cloyne and other writers, from the Ordnance Survey, and from 

 personal observation, the following seems to be its route : — The 

 exact spot where it left Buxton is unknown, but it appears about a 

 mile to the S.S.E. of that town, where it has been much interfered 

 with by the modern road to Ashbourn, though it is in places visible 

 on the W. side of the latter. It runs thus for more than two miles 

 to Brierlow, where it makes an angle and points more to the E., 

 about a mile further crossing the modern road, and becoming very 

 visible in the fields on the E. side of the latter, until it reaches 

 "The Duke of York." Between this point and the Hen Moor, it 

 is identical with, the modern road. At the latter place it again 

 takes to the fields on the E. side of the modern road, and is visible 

 passing through " Middle Street " and Benty Grange, and for 

 several miles further is visible in the fields until it reaches Pike 

 Hall. It then passes a little south of Aldwark, crosses Brassing- 

 ton Moor, where it was lately quite visible ; passes Hopton, where, 

 in the last century, Mr. Gell laid bare a portion of its gravel bank 

 and paving, between Keddleston Park and Dufheld to Darley 

 Slade, near which it joins the Rykneld Street and with it crosses 

 the Derwent to the station at Little Chester. 



There was a road also between the stations of Brough and 

 Buxton, and I think I cannot do better than quote the Bishop of 

 Cloyne's account of it, as no one can (without laying bare a por- 

 tion of the road itself, on the moors) add anything to our know- 

 ledge on the subject, and the ordnance map will enable anyone to 

 track its course. The Bishop says,* " On leaving Brough, it is 

 discoverable bearing S.W., as soon as it passes the second water 

 flash called the Burghwash, and fragments of its broad ridge may 



* Magna Britannia, vol. v., p. ccxii., which is in turn mainly adopted from 

 Dr. Pegge's account. 



