6. The Upper Salt-way, leading from the salt-mines at Droitwich to the coast of Lincolnshire.
7. The Lower Salt-way, leading from the same mines to the south eastern coast.
8. A road which appears to have skirted the western coast, as the Ermyn Street did the eastern.
Besides these, there is reason to conjecture from several detached pieces, that another road followed the shores round the island.
WATLING STREET.
The south-eastern branch of the Watling Street proceeded from Richborough on the coast of Kent, to Canterbury; and from thence, nearly in the line of the present turnpike, towards Rochester. It left that city to the right, passed the Medway by a ford, and ran almost straight, through lord Darnley's park, to Southfleet. It bent to the left to avoid the marshes near London, continued along a road now lost to Holwood Hill, the capital of the Rhemi, and then followed the course of the present road to London.—Having crossed the Thames, it ran by Edgeware to Verulam; and from thence, with the present great Irish road, through Dunstable and Towcester to Weedon. Hence, instead of bending to the left, with the present turnpike, it proceeded straight by Dovebridge, High Cross, Fazeley, Wall, and Wellington, to Wroxeter. It then passed the Severn, and continued by Rowton, Pen y Pont, and Bala, to Tommen y Mawr, where it divided into two branches. One ran by Beth Gellert to Caernarvon and Anglesea, the other by Dolwyddelan, through the mountains to the banks of the Menai, where it joined the north-eastern branch (which will be presently described), and ended at Holy Head, the great port of the Irish.
In its course are the British towns Rhutupis, Richborough, Durovernum, Canterbury, Durobrivæ, Rochester, Noviomagus, Holwood Hill, Trinobantum, London, Verolamium, St. Alban's, Durocobrivæ, Dunstable, Uriconium, Wroxeter, Mediolanum on the banks of the Tanad, Segontium, Caer Segont, and possibly a town, of which the name is lost, at Holy Head.
The north-western branch of the Watling Street, coming from the interior of Scotland by Cramond and Jedburgh, enters England at Chew Green, and continues by Riechester to Corbridge. There, crossing the Tyne, it ran through Ebchester, Lanchester, and Binchester, and passed the Tees by a ford near Pierce Bridge. Hence it went by Catteric, Newton, Masham, and Kirby Malside to Ilkley, and near Halifax to Manchester. Over the moors between these two last places it is called the Devil's Causeway. From Manchester, where it passed the Mersey, it proceeded by Street, Northwich, Chester, Caerhun, and over the mountains to Aber, where it fell into the south-western branch, in its course to Holy Head.
On it were the British towns, Bremenium, Riechester, Epiacum, Lanchester, Vinovium, Binchester, Cutaractonis, Catterick, Olicana, Ilkley, and Deva, Chester.