Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Watling Street is the name given to an ancient trackway in England and Wales that was first used by the Celts mainly between the modern cities of Canterbury and St Albans. One branch issues south towards London and the other runs east across the Pennines to York. Fittingly for the Romans who used their fine roads for military use, it was midway up Watling Street not too far from Chester that was the location of heroic and indeed barbaric Queen Boudica’s defeat by the Romans. I was fortunate to visit Attingham in 2012 ( Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:V1 Vixen the first book in a vigilante pulp noir thriller trilogySign up for exclusive news & offers from Author Stephen LiddellEnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Today it is hard to imagine Westminster being on an island but that was precisely the attraction why Westminster Abbey was built where it was.From Thorney Island, the trackway went up to Wroxeter in present day Shropshire where it diverged with one route going westwards towards the NW tip of Wales whilst the other ran up hundreds of miles past Chester and the current The original British and indeed Roman name for the road is unknown and it’s quite possible that the Romans may not have viewed it as a single route at all, dividing it amongst two separate itineraries in one 2nd-century list. Address: 77 Queen Street, Mosborough, Sheffield, S20 5BP Telephone Number(s): Helpline: 03444 113 111 Office: 0114 2480043 or 0114 293 9730 Website: https://citizensadvicesheffield.org.uk/ The original Anglo-Saxon name for the section of the route between Canterbury and London was Watling Street has been used as a boundary of many historic administrative units, and some of these are still in existence today, either through continuity or the adoption of these as by successor areas. The A2 road between Dover and London runs over or parallel to the old path. The Romans later paved the route, part of which is identified on the Antonine Itinerary as Iter III: "Item a Londinio ad portum Dubris" - from London to the port of Dover. A NEW vision for the old council building in Watling Street has been submitted to Cheshire West and Chester Council. Several factors may have slowed the river here, leading to the deposition of sufficient sedimentary material to allow fording:Some site in the middle section of this route is supposed by most historians to have been the location of A number of Old English names testify to route of Watling Street at this time: The road was again paved in the early 19th century at the expense of Much of the road is still in use today, apart from a few sections where it has been diverted. Thank you, please leave a valid email address when completing the form below and Healthwatch Cheshire West will be in touch. And Chester, founded by the Romans in AD 79 when it was known as Deva Victrix, or simply Deva, is a key feature as an important legionary fortress and town of the day.

Though the Romans are famed for their roads along with many other things, they didn’t invent the idea of roads but rather vastly improved upon what had gone before with better engineering, money and manpower to it easier for their vast armies to police the empire and to a lesser extent to enable trade and commerce.When the Romans arrived in Britain there was already a road system of sorts that dated back thousands of years. A detail from the same map displaying the Midlands "Watling Street" St Albans.. I don’t know where the Wroxeter relocation scheme came from, thanks for letting me know. Over time, the graveling and paving itself fell into disrepair, although the road’s course continued to be used in many places as a public right of way. Sasha’s map shows Roman roads linking Deva to Wales in the west, to the north and south along Watling Street and to Colchester in the south east on the ancient route of Via Devana.

Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Some of this route is preserved beneath Old Kent Road that to this day runs southeast wards from Southwark (the southern end of London Bridge) and 1,000 years later in the first modern English literature, the pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales would have walked it on their route to Fittingly for the Romans who used their fine roads for military use, it was midway up Watling Street not too far from Chester that was the location of heroic and indeed barbaric Queen Boudica’s defeat by the Romans.By the time of the Saxon invasions, the Roman bridge across the Thames had presumably fallen into disrepair or been destroyed.

“Watlingestrate” was one of the four roads protected by the king’s peace in the Laws of Edward the Confessor, the last great Anglo-Saxon king.Watling Street was such an impressive feature of the British Isles that it has been used as a boundary of many historic administrative units, and some of these are still in existence today, either through continuity or the adoption of these as by successor areas. 01606 42452 01606 350440 Watling Street Medical Centre, Northwich, Cheshire, CW9 5EX Castlefield is an inner city conservation area of Manchester in North West England.The conservation area which bears its name is bounded by the River Irwell, Quay Street, Deansgate and Chester Road.It was the site of the Roman era fort of Mamucium or Mancunium which gave its name to Manchester. At Blackheath, the Roman road ran along Old Dover Road, turning and running through the area of present-day Greenwich Park to a location perhaps a little north of the current Deptford Bridge. The name Watling Street can be derived from the Latin term ‘Via Strata’ which was the designation for any paved roadway and ‘Waeclingas’ or “people of Waecla” who were a tribe who lived just a mile or two away from where I am writing this in the lands around the old city of Most traffic in pre Roman times were between the areas of modern Canterbury and The Romans began constructing paved roads shortly after their invasion in 43AD. Icknield Street or Ryknild Street is a Roman road in England, with a route roughly south-west to north-east.It runs from the Fosse Way at Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire) to Templeborough in South YorkshireIt passes through Alcester, Studley, Redditch, Metchley Fort, Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield, Lichfield, Burton upon Trent and Derby A map of the Saxon Watling Street overlaid on the Roman road networkA stretch of modern-day Watling Street in BuckinghamshireBBC Time Team excavation and discussion, from 34:50 Although it is possible the Romans used a ferry prior to the expansion of Londinium in the rebuilding following Boudica's sack of the city in the year 60 or 61.