Roman roads in City and County of the City of London

A map of the 8.5 km of known Roman road in this UK county, drawn solid, dashed or dotted by how certain the route is.

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Key
  • Certain Well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m
  • Conjectured Known road, course less precisely documented
  • Hypothetical Route not pinned down, or existence uncertain
  • Secondary road Thinner line, any certainty

How accurate are these lines? Most Roman road routes on this map are approximate. The Itiner-e project, which supplies the data, classes most of them as Conjectured, so read a line as a best estimate of where the road ran rather than a surveyed route.

Roman roads in City and County of the City of London at a glance

City and County of the City of London, in England, has about 8.5 km of Roman road in the Itiner-e atlas, mapped as 14 segments. None of it is classed as certain: 40% is conjectured and 60% is hypothetical, so the line on the map is a best estimate of the course rather than a surveyed route. 3 roads here have a well-known name, and the longest is Watling Street. 1 Roman places (towns, forts, ports and stops) lie along the roads.

  • 8.5 kmof Roman road
  • 14segments
  • 3named roads
  • 1Roman places
How certainLength (km)Share
Certain00%
Conjectured3.440%
Hypothetical559%

Certain: well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m. Conjectured: known road, course less precisely documented. Hypothetical: route not pinned down, or existence uncertain.

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Named Roman roads in City and County of the City of London

The longest is the Watling Street, with 2.5 km of it in City and County of the City of London.

RoadLength in City and County of the City of London (km)
Watling Street2.5
Stane Street0.6
Ermine Street0.3

Roman places in City and County of the City of London

1 Roman place lies on or beside the roads here. Names come from the Pleiades gazetteer.

  • Londinium

Source

Road lines: Itiner-e (CC BY 4.0). Places: Pleiades (CC BY 3.0). Lengths are measured along the road lines inside the City and County of the City of London boundary. See all data sources and licences.

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