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The History and Topography of Harrogate, and the Forest of Knaresborough
The History and Topography of Harrogate and the Forest of Knaresborough Author:William Grainge General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1882 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: ROADS. Nothing can better represent the state of the trade and commerce of a country than its roads; where these are wanting, or of an inferior quality, those can not be of great extent or importance. The roads intersecting our district divide themselves in the order of time into British trackways, Boman roads, Pack-horse roads, Turnpike roads, and Railroads. Bemains of British trackways can only be expected to be found where the country is in its natural uncultivated state, and consequently the progress of agriculture has nearly obliterated them; yet, slight traces may be seen near "the Bank," in Norwood, and at Fox Crag, on the confines of Norwood and Stainbnrn; and also in a few other places which the plough has spared. The probability is that the main lines of trackway were afterwards occupied by the military roads of the Romans. Of Roman roads, two at least crossed the forest, one from north to south, the other from north-east to south-west. The first of these passed from Catterick to Adel, two well-known Roman stations, and ran along the western side of the great vale of York, just where the mountain ridges decline to the plain. This road is not mentioned in any of the Itineraries; yet, we have not the least doubt of its existence, as there is sufficient evidence remaining in old entrenchments, and thenames of places, to convince the most sceptical; it is sufficient for our purpose to trace it in our own district, which it entered near Ripley, then passed across Killinghall moor, where, near the Warren house, is a camp of the undoubted Roman type; thence, passing southward, we have the signifi...« less