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3 unusual facts about Roman roads in Britain


Roman roads in Britain

Chaucer's pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales almost certainly used Watling Street to travel from Southwark to Canterbury.

There are seventeen places in England named Stretton, of which all but two are evidently located on a Roman road.

(b) the main Roman army bases: the three permanent fortresses housing the legions (castra legionaria): York (Eboracum), base of the Ninth Legion: Legio IX Hispana, later the Sixth: Legio VI Victrix; Chester (Deva), base of the Twentieth: Legio XX Valeria Victrix; and Caerleon (Isca Augusta), base of the Second: Legio II Augusta.


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.

Thomas Codrington

Roman roads in Britain, published originally in 1903, was the first attempt by any author to catalogue fully the evident remains of the Roman transport network in the United Kingdom.


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