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5 unusual facts about Ermine Street


Cranwell branch

Transporting materials and supplies to the RNAS Training Establishment along farm tracks was always difficult; a railway running parallel to Ermine Street from Ancaster was initially proposed, but severe gradients were found when surveying the route.

Ermine Street

The Old English name was 'Earninga Straete' (1012), named after a tribe called the Earningas, who inhabited a district later known as Armingford Hundred, around Arrington, Cambridgeshire and Royston, Hertfordshire.

Clearly, the end of the Jurassic limestone ridge at the Humber was significant in the English settlement of Lincolnshire.

Before the diversion was made round the extended runway at Scampton, with a very slight diversion at Broughton, it was possible to travel about 33 miles, from the Newport Arch, the Roman north gate at Lincoln, to the Parish of Winteringham along a road so slightly curved as to be regarded as straight.

As Ermine Street extended north out of Lincoln and past Scampton the map attached clearly shows an alternative course of Ermine Street curving left and forming a semicircle on a wide heading west of the Humber Estuary.


Ashby de la Launde and Bloxholm

The western edge of the Temple parish is along the alignment of the former Roman Road of High Dyke park of Ermine Street.

Bawtry

Bawtry is a small market town and civil parish which lies at the point where the western branch of the Roman road Ermine Street crosses the River Idle in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England and met the Great North Road.


see also

Roman Rigg

Roman Ridge, part of the Roman road of Ermine Street located in the Doncaster area of South Yorkshire