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account of the iters of Britain. It extends the whole length 
of the island from east to west. From Eboracum it leads to 
Calcaria and forward to Leeds, where Thoresby describes a 
camp at a place called Wall Flat.* From thence the road 
was continued over the country towards Adwalton. At this 
point, the late Mr. Leman, a Fellow of the Society of 
Antiquaries, and said to be a most indefatigable inquirer 
into the antiquities of this country, suggested the probability 
of an intermediate station between Tadcaster and Slack, 
which he believed to have been lost in the copies of the 
Itinerary which had come down to us. The name is, no 
doubt, significant of some such station, as the meaning of 
Adwalton is obviously " at or against the walled town." 
At about the distance of a mile to the south of this supposed 
station the road passes to Cleckheaton, where Dr. Richardson 
actually found the vestigia of a Roman town, and of which 
Dr. Dunham Whitaker says he gave a distinct and satisfactory 
account to Mr. Hearn. The letter containing the information 
is published in the first volume of Hearn's edition of Leyland's 
Itinerary, and relates to the discovery of Roman coins in 
Heat on fields, together with the foundations of buildings. 
Dr. Whitaker is of opinion that it was a resting place 
between Calcaria and Cambodunum. To this point we have 
been conducted in a direct line from Tadcaster, by the 
authorities I have cited. The road may not be entire the 
whole distance, but I believe it will be found, for the greatest 
part, to correspond with the line of the old road from York 
to Manchester through this country. We have now no 
alternative but to follow the road in a straight line to Outlane. 
This leads us to Brighouse, where the iter crossed the river by 
a bridge, which, with the house that stood by, or upon, it in 
remote times, gave name to the locality. From the river, the 
road passed through Rastrick, and thence, by Castle Hill, Ridge 
* Ducatus, p. 104 (1816). 
