Wheeldale Roman Road, North York Moors When the Romans began their conquest of Celtic Britain in 43 AD, they found a haphazard collection of roads and paths, most connecting local fields and hamlets, but also some longer distance trade routes (e.g. along the North Downs in Kent, and ...
Even today, in some places, such as the Via Flamina on the Italian Peninsula and the Fosse Way in Britain, are still used for walking and cycling. While the materials have changed, modern road-making still uses many of the techniques that were developed by Rome. Modern roads use the laye...
versus the cost of long-distance transport of heavy materials. This meant that local materials were used wherever possible as they did with housing and other architecture. Britain, for example, provided a wide range of materials whilst some other countries might be more limited to one or two ma...
Britain's oldest road is the Ridgeway, which originally covered 400 kilometres from the Dorset coast to The Wash in Norfolk. As its name implies, the Ridgeway provided a route over higher ground that was drier and less wooded than lower tracks. It was a major road for travellers, traders...
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Type: Sign Categories: information and tourism Location: Bingham, Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe View on OpenStreetMapLatitude52.94931° or 52° 56' 58" north Longitude-0.94812° or 0° 56' 53" west Open Location Code9C4...
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
Built during the republic and empire, a vast network of roads made moving goods and troops easier through all corners of the Roman world.
Silchester was settled as early as the late Iron Age when it was an important tribal centre for the native Atrebates. When the Romans settled in Britain, they reused the settlement site to create a new town called Calleva Attrebatum (loosely translated asTown in the woods of the Atrebattes...