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- It is still possible to travel along parts of the historic route of Watling Street today. Between Dover and London, the A2 runs parallel to Watling Street. A section of the original route also still exists in London near Mansion House Tube Station.
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North of London, the name Watling Street still occurs in Hertfordshire (including St Albans), Bedfordshire , Buckinghamshire (Milton Keynes), Northamptonshire , Leicestershire , Warwickshire (Nuneaton and Atherstone) and in Staffordshire (Cannock, Wall, Tamworth and Lichfield).
Oct 15, 2024 · Watling Street, Roman road in England that ran from Dover west-northwest to London and thence northwest via St. Albans (Verulamium) to Wroxeter (Ouirokónion, or Viroconium). It was one of Britain’s greatest arterial roads of the Roman and post-Roman periods.
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Study the map and it is clear that modern-day Watling Street neatly divides into two convenient sections. From the coast at Dover to London, it is the A2 sometimes called the Great Dover Road. From London, the A5 follows Watling Street north to its original end in Wroxeter, just outside Shrewsbury. Like occupiers through the ages, the Romans quickl...
Plan to take two days to travel along Watling Street. Leave the south coast and stay over in or around Towcester, the ancient Roman fort of Lactodurum, which is a convenient halfway point. Follow the road out of London to St. Albans, where a Roman centurion paid the price for following the new religion and where Ye Old Fighting Cocks, which claims ...
“Do you want to make the road trip in a classic Land Rover?” Peter asked. “It’s a military road so what better to use than a military vehicle?” His 1967 Land Rover has seen better days. Its mileage is impossible to determine as the numbers have gone around the clock too many times. We rendezvoused at his house and set out to explore Watling Street’...
In the 9th century, Watling Street was more than just a route through the English countryside. It was a border between those parts of England that had been invaded and colonized by the Danish and those that remained in the control of the Anglo-Saxons. The Treaty of Wedmore saw the beaten Danes withdraw to an area North and East of Watling Street no...
We arrived in Shrewsbury, Shropshire’s medieval county town. Shrewsbury has a major range of accommodation; from high-end hotels to B&Bs. This year, the town is enjoying a year-long celebration of the bicentenary of the birth of native-son Charles Darwin. Events run to November and are expected to draw thousands of visitors. While Shrewsbury is not...
I stood Peter lunch the next day at The Saracen’s Head in Towcester, a three-star hotel with an impressively long ironstone frontage directly on the A5. Charles Dickens’ readers might recall the name from The Pickwick Papers. In what is possibly one of English literature’s earliest product placements, Dickens wrote that Pickwick meets an old acquai...
Feb 1, 2018 · A section of Watling Street still exists in the City of London close to Mansion House underground station on the route of the original Roman road which traversed the River Thames via the first London Bridge and ran through the City in a straight line from London Bridge to Newgate.
Jun 19, 2023 · It is still possible to travel along parts of the historic route of Watling Street today. Between Dover and London, the A2 runs parallel to Watling Street. A section of the original route also still exists in London near Mansion House Tube Station.
Jul 11, 2017 · Watling Street’s origins are lost in the mists of prehistory, but it seems to already have been ancient already when the Romans straightened and paved the stretch between Dover to Wroxeter (a...
At various points along the historic route, the name Watling Street remains in modern use. The 2nd-century Antonine Itinerary gives the course of Watling Street from “Urioconium” (Wroxeter) to “Portus Ritupis” (Richborough) as a part of its Second Route (Iter II), which runs for 501 MP from Hadrian’s Wall to Richborough:
