Short Guided Tour - 9
The Roman occupation in Yorkshire was from AD70 to early in the 5th century.
A map from the collection fo Dr Villy indicates that there was a Ford at Utley with a road up the hillside, by today’s Keighley Cemetery, to Braithwaite and Laycock.
This increases the possibility that Dean Bridge in Newsholme Dean is Roman in origin and the similar clapper bridge at Wycoller is part of the same packhorse route over the Pennines to Wycoller in Lancashire.
Roman Origins
