There can be no doubt that Stukeley's account of the Roman roads is generally true, but the theory of the great road by Old Street seems unlikely, although the latter is quite certainly a Roman way, and was called Ealde Street in the twelfth century.[55] The Roman road has been found 11 feet below the surface, together with Roman coins.[56] There cannot be a doubt that, in late Roman days at least, the great west-to-east road passed through the city and by the Mile End Road through Stratford and the other places named from "street" to Chelmsford and Colchester. Besides the great Roman roads there were of course many local ways. The High Street from Aldersgate to Islington, also mentioned in the twelfth century,[57] is probably, like the gate through which it passed, Roman too. Stow's hypothesis that Old Street branched away from the top of Aldersgate Street seems best to meet the case. Stukeley's suggestion about the naming of "Watling Street" in the city, which has been so embroidered upon by recent writers, seems, as we shall show (p. 150), to be a mistake. It is asserted in a fourteenth-century document quoted by Lysons that the great east road passed the Lea by Old Ford before Matilda built Bow Bridge; but this has no weight in excluding the road by Aldgate against the evidence of the great road itself. The name Stratford is mentioned as Strachford in a charter of the Conqueror.[58] In the life of St. Erkenwald given in the Golden Legend, it is said that his body was brought to London from Barking through Stratford after a miraculous passage of the Lea. There _may_ have been a road by Old Street and Old Ford, but there _must_ have been a road by Holborn and Whitechapel through Newgate and Aldgate.[59] The branch from the great Watling Street to the city, by Tyburn and St. Andrew's Holborn, is described in a charter giving in Saxon the boundaries of Westminster, dated 951, but not original. This charter, even if forged, can hardly be later than the era of the Conquest, when the coterminous manor of Eya was given to the Abbey by Geoffrey de Mandeville; and the names found in it must then have been of immemorial antiquity. Mr. Stevenson, in a recent criticism of the document, accepts it as genuine and proposes the date 971.[60] It reads: "First up from the Thames along Merfleet to Pollenstock, so to Bulinga Fen, and along the old ditch to Cuforde. From Cuforde along the Tyburn to the _Here Straet_, and by it to the Stock of St. Andrew's Church, then in London Fen south to Midstream of Thames, and by land and strand to the Merfleet." _Here Street_ is the usual Saxon name for a Roman road, but it will be convenient to use it in this case as a proper name.