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Roman Road continued:-

it again meets with the old road, and keeps the line of it until it crosses the bridge over the Fingland Burn, where the new road curves to the east to avoid the acclivities, but the old road continues in nearly a straight line, and can be traced on the side of the modern road for about 65 chains, where the modern road again joins the old road until it crosses the Pedden Burn, here the two roads are tangent for about 10 chains when they again join, and excepting a small portion of the old road which can be seen about 8 chains farther to the north all trace of it is lost, until the modern road crosses the bridge over Glenochar Burn near Glenochar. Here the modern road leaves the line of the old road, which can be traced on the west side of the modern road to the north-east end of Wood Brae, about 60 chains south from Glengeith Toll, where the modern road crosses the line of the old road, the track of which can be distinctly traced through the fields to the north-east over the railway, past the station and through a ford on the Elvan Water to Elvanfoot, passing through the Check Bar and winding along the west bank of the River Clyde, crosses the modern road near the point where the road from Carlisle joins it after crossing the new bridge, the old road can be traced on the west side of the modern road for about 7 chains, where the two unite and all trace of the old road is lost. It is supposed that the modern road is on the site of the old road from this point till it passes the Manse in the village of Crawford. Mr. Wm. Cranstoun of Crawford Inn, an old residenter in the locality says, that before the railway was constructed the old road could have been traced (the dotted lines on trace) to the range of houses which is still known as Watling Street, leaving which it turns to the north, crosses the River Clyde by a ford and joins the branch out of Annandale about 8 chains west from Crawford Castle. See description of Annandale branch.