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the number of roads which branch oft' from it. One of these 
is said to have run direct to the Roman station of Cambo- 
dunum, the site of which has been identified, with apparent 
correctness, with the hamlet of Slack, between Huddersfield 
and Halifax, and proceeded thence to Mancunium, or Man- 
chester. But the more important road to Cambodunum 
started from the Roman Calcaria, now Tadcaster, and passed 
near Barwick-in-Elmet, and probably through or near Leeds. 
Another road of some importance seems to have run from 
Legiolium (Castleford), over the moor to Whitkirk and 
Hawcaster Rigg, where there was a station, by Cookridge, 
where the remains of it were very distinct in Thoresby's 
time, through Adel, where we find the remains of a Roman 
town of some importance, and so on to the Roman town of 
Olicana, at Ilkley, from whence it proceeded over the 
mountains, which the Romans are said to have called the 
Pennine Alps, to Ribchester, in Lancashire, long supposed 
to be the Roman Coccium, but which recent discoveries 
appear to identify with Bremetenracum. There are traces of 
other cross roads within the district which is the immediate 
subject of my paper. Early in the last century the remains 
of a Roman villa were discovered at Cleckheaton, by Dr. 
Richardson ; and Roman remains of one kind or other have 
been found in several localities. Your district had thus, within 
itself or immediately beyond its limits, no less than five Roman 
towns or stations of importance, Calcaria (Tadcaster), on 
the North-east, Legiolium (Castleford), on the South-east, 
Cambodunum (Slack), on the South-west, Olicana (Ilkley), 
on the North-west, and the unknown town at Adel nearly in 
its centre. 
There is a suspicious name of a place in the parish of Adel 
in the Domesday survey, Burhedurum, which has led some 
antiquaries to suppose that the name of the Roman town may 
have been Burgodurum, or Burgodunum. Whatever it 
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