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The earliest road laid out in this section was no doubt that beginning at
Theophilus Williams' plantation, on the banks of the Neshaminy Creek, near
the present Line Lexington, and passing through the full length of the
township down to John Humphrey's bridge, above the Spring House, in 1717,
being the present Bethlehem road. To this same bridge a road had been laid
out six years previously, down to the Pennypack Creek, at the present
Huntingdon Valley, forming the line between Gwynedd and Horsham, and almost
touching the southern corner of the township. From the people of this
section going so much to mill there for flour at this early time it
received the name of Welsh road, which it still retains.