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ideas of the ages remote from our own. But I am con- 
strained to admit that I approach the subject of my Paper 
with considerable diffidence ; for, in my search after informa- 
tion relating to it, in the pages of our local histories, I have 
found little to assist, and much to discourage. On these 
authorities the ancient roads of our parish would seem, even 
a century ago, to have been few in number and traced with 
difficulty. Watson enumerates two — one from York to 
Manchester ; the other from Manchester to xlldborough. 
Of the former he says, " that having gained the height of 
Lindley Moor, it exhibited ' a curious remain of antiquity 
that it was considerably raised above the level of the ad- 
joining ground; that it entered ' a field called Tarbarrells/ 
and afterwards, being lost in the enclosures, could be traced 
no further. ,, * The late Rev. Joseph Hunter says of this 
iter, "that all idea of actually tracing it by indicia yet 
remaining is vain.' , f This learned author is also silent 
about the branch of the same road which must inevitably have 
passed by the station at Lindwell, in the township of Greet- 
land, the spot where the altar " Divis Civitatis Brigantum/'^ 
and other heavy remains of the Roman town, which he 
believes to have been the Cambodunum of the Itinerary, were 
found in the sixteenth century. Of the road from Manchester 
to Aldborough, Watson says nothing. Indeed, he does not 
follow any road which attracted his attention, to any great 
distance from the point at which he commences it ; and he 
generally ends with an expression of his inability to say 
anything definite or conclusive about it. Dr. Dunham 
Whitaker, in his account of our parish, affords no support 
to the present inquiry ; from his silence, one might infer that 
* Watson, p. 39. 
+ Communication to the Society of Antiquarians on the Site of Cambodunum, 
p.- 4. 
} Divis Civitatis Brigantum, et numini Augustorum, Titus Aurelius 
Aurelianus dedicat pro se et suis susceptum merito animo grato solvit. 
