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date is dtuated, is yet a matter of debate. Some (ag 
Mr. Camden and others) declare for Congleton ; 
fome alfo for Northwich ; but I think equally wrong. 
But to underdand me rightly, be pleafed to lay be- 
fore you Gibfon’s Camden, vol. i. and in the map for 
Chefhire you will obferve Stretford in Lancashire. 
Here, it is certain, the Roman road palled the Mer- 
fey, as well by the name, as the vifible remains in 
the meadows near the prefent bridge. About a quar- 
ter of a mile from Altringham you fee the road very 
plain, as alfo near Dunham and in Dunham-park, 
More foutherly you fee Chapel in the Street ; an evi- 
dent mark of the Roman way having gone near it. 
By this courfe it is evident Congleton cannot be the 
place ; the courfe of the road leaving it too much to 
the ealt by feveral miles ; and laying a ruler over the 
map, you will perceive the Roman road proceeded 
in a diredt line from Stretford to Dunham-park, leav- 
ing Altringham to the ead, and fo diredtly forward 
till pad: Rodhern Mere, where it mud have made an 
angle * to go to Chapel in the Street : continuing 
which line forward to the fouth, you will find, that it 
points to Kinderton, the fituation of which is between 
a river and a brook, and remains of the road may be 
feen to the wed of Rudheath, now called Kinddreet, 
and a fquare Roman camp on the Lingula to the 
wed of Kinderton. Thus the name of Congleton, 
which induced Mr. Camden to place Condate there, 
agrees lefs with the name than Kinderton. The com- 
mon charadteridic of Agricola s dation agrees with 
E e Kinderton ; 
* See the map annexed. 
