212 ROMAN MINOR SETTLEMENTS, ETC. 



A road, of which from time to time fragments have been 

 observed, connected Buxton with the station at Melandra Castle, 

 but no attempt has yet been made to thoroughly trace it. That it 

 existed is, however, certain. 



Another road connected the station at Melandra with that at 

 Brough. From the former, both it and the road to Buxton appear 

 identical for nearly two miles, but it then branches off to the east 

 and passes to the south of Howard Town and Crosscliff, and its 

 course over the moors, in order to avoid the higher eminences, is 

 somewhat erratic, involving the construction of numerous angles. 

 About a mile beyond Crosscliff the well-known name " Cold 

 Harbour " occurs on its route. It is visible over the moors for 

 many miles, and enters the station at Brough by the gate on the 

 north-west side. Mr. Watson (d rchceologia III., p. 237) says that 

 the line of this road "for a great part is still followed, the old 

 pavement in many places remaining with drains cut through it, 

 when it crosses any marshy ground." 



This road bears the name of " Doctor's Gate," and Mr. Watson 

 was the first to point out the singular circumstance that a road 

 running north from Melandra falls into another at a place called 

 Doctor's Lane Head, whilst the road from Brough to Buxton 

 passes through a place called " Doctor's Pasture," showing a con- 

 nection between the three roads. 



In 1874 I detected outside the south gate of Melandra Castle, 

 and running parallel with the south side, the gravel of a Roman 

 road some twenty-five feet in width. It was perfectly visible as a 

 hard track, though slightly overgrown with grass, etc. It went to 

 the brow of the hill above the river's bank on the west, where I 

 lost satisfactory traces. It was, however, pointing directly for the 

 line of the Roman road called The Staley Street on the opposite 

 side of the river, and I have no doubt whatever that it was its 

 continuation. 



There was a Roman road first pointed out by the Bishop of 

 Cloyne, which seems to have connected Chesterton (near New- 

 castle) with Little Chester. It crosses the Dove close to Rocester 

 (where there was a small station) and enters Derbyshire, where it 



