I find the Rigning-street way comes from Alcester, directly north and south, by Moseley, over a heath where the road appears now very broad, on the east side of the rivulet Rea: it descends Camp hill, and passes the river by the present bridge, and the valley where the low and old part of the town stood: it makes an angle in order to pass this broad meadow, directly as the Icening-street does at Newbury, or _ad Spinas_. No doubt but here was a station in the time of the Romans, because a convenient distance, ten miles from _Etocetum_: but of its name I know no footsteps. I imagine the present name derived from the great quantity of broom growing all round. _Ingham_ signifies the dwelling upon the meadows; for the town has advanced itself but by degrees up the hill. When the Roman road has passed the valley, it turns up the first street on the right hand (Park street) to take the most convenient rise up hill, and at the end of the town falls into the present road, with its former direction to _Etocetum_. Probably upon Camp hill has been a camp, being by the road side, and having a fine prospect: what with the deep roads to Coventry and Warwick, here meeting the Ricning; and the inclosures, and digging for brick and tile, I could discern no signs of it. At this town is a considerable manufacture for thread. Beyond Birmingham, the Rigning-way runs upon the division between the counties of Stafford and Warwick, by Aldston. In the forges here, three men beat together with successive strokes; which brought into my mind Virgil’s _Brontesque, Steropesque, ac nudus membra Pyracmon._ ETOCETVM.