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A map of Roman roads in Roman Britain. Roman roads in Britannia were initially designed for military use, created by the Roman army during the nearly four centuries (AD 43–410) that Britannia was a province of the Roman Empire.
Discover how, where and why a vast network of roads was built over the length and breadth of Roman Britain. The Romans in the Lake District Find out about the network of forts and roads the Romans built in the Lake District to control this area on the empire’s frontier.
Roman roads in Britain have been a subject of fascination for hundreds of years. After the Romans invaded the Isles in the year 43, they set about building an extensive system to transport...
Well-known Roman roads include Watling Street, which ran from London to Chester and the Fosse Way, which crossed England from Exeter in the south-west to Lincoln in the north-east. The latter followed a route in use since prehistoric times and around AD47 it marked the first boundary of the new Roman province.
The Roman roads in Britain were, with Roman aqueducts, and the Roman army, [1] one of the most impressive features of the Roman Empire in Britain. In Britannia, [2] as in other provinces, the Romans constructed a network of paved trunk roads to (surfaced highways).
Roman Britain, area of the island of Great Britain that was under Roman rule from the conquest of Claudius in 43 CE to the withdrawal of imperial authority by Honorius in 410 CE. Learn about the Roman system of roads and fortifications in Britain, Roman civil administration, and Romano-British art in this article.
Roman Britain. This map is the primary focus of the Map of Roman Britain website and aims to provide a comprehensive amalgamation of geospatial data gathered from various research projects. Historical representations. Explore notable historical maps of Roman Britain, stretching back to 1265.
The site features the first phase of our comprehensive gazetteer of Roman roads in Britain, and includes every Roman road in Yorkshire or leading into Yorkshire (53 in total). It also features new interpretations of the British sections of the Antonine Itinerary and the Notitia Dignitatum.
This article focuses on the ca. 2,000 mi (3,200 km) of Roman roads in Britain shown on the Ordnance Survey's Map of Roman Britain. This contains the most accurate and up-to-date layout of certain and probable routes that is readily available to the general public.
In the more than four decades since its publication, new research, excavations, and remote sensing technologies (e.g. LiDAR), have advanced the state of our knowledge of Roman roads in Britain by leaps and bounds.