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of the attention of Horsley and others, in his " History of 
Craven," under Ilkley, of which he treats ; but upon this 
Iter, both in his Craven and his Loidis, he is silent. War- 
burton lays down his road from Manchester to Eochdale, 
Littleborough, and Blackstone-edge : thence through Soy land, 
in the parish of Halifax, to the west, not east, of Sowerby 
Chapel, as he has written it. From Sowerby he takes the 
road to Rowlands Gate, where it intersects the Doncaster and 
E/ibchester Iter. Leaving "Warley on the east, and Midgley 
on the west, the herald seems to have gone in the direction 
of Cold Edge ; but, before reaching that elevation, we find 
him suddenly describing a distinct road, some three miles to 
the east of his course, which also led to Ilkley. This was 
in the township of Ovenden, where he informs us that the 
road had lUingworth on the west and Shay Lane on the east. 
From this place he takes it onward to Ilkley. There can 
be no doubt that, on the preparation of his map for publica- 
tion, his notes relating to these Iters became confused, and 
that he substituted an account of the Ovenden road for the 
one which passed over Cold Edge. After the map had been 
issued, and when it was too late, "Warburton discovered the 
hiatus he had made on the via vicinalis which he had brought 
from Manchester to Newknds Gate ; and, in a note which he 
entered in the Harleian MSS., he corrects the error by 
bringing the way from Ilkley over Rombold's Moor, Morton 
High Gate, Hainsworth Shaw on Harden Moor, Ellarcar, 
Denholme Edge, Foreside, Hunter Hill, Cold Edge, and a 
little to the east of Midgley, that is, Newlands Gate, the 
point which he left for the Ovenden road. This memoran* 
dum of Warburton's was unknown to the Whitakers, Watson, 
and others, and their respective accounts of the two roads are 
confused or nullified by the original error. The fragment of 
Eoman road noticed by Warburton in this singular manner 
as passing between lUingworth and Shay Lane, in the town- 
