Roman Roads Map

Roman roads in Cumbria

A map of the 478 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 Cumbria at a glance

Cumbria, in England, has about 478 km of Roman road in the Itiner-e atlas, mapped as 55 segments. None of it is classed as certain: 96% is conjectured and 4% is hypothetical, so the line on the map is a best estimate of the course rather than a surveyed route. None of the roads here has a well-known name in the data, so the map shows unnamed Roman roads only. 60 Roman places (towns, forts, ports and stops) lie along the roads.

  • 478 kmof Roman road
  • 55segments
  • 0named roads
  • 60Roman places
How certainLength (km)Share
Certain00%
Conjectured45996%
Hypothetical19.94%

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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Roman places in Cumbria

60 Roman places lie on or beside the roads here. Names come from the Pleiades gazetteer.

  • Luguvalium
  • Derventio
  • Low Borrowbridge
  • Brocavum
  • Voreda
  • Alauna
  • Milecastle 76 (Drumburgh)
  • Banna
  • Brav(o)niacum
  • Castra Exploratorum
  • Milecastle 66 (Stanwix Bank)
  • Bewcastle Roman Fort
  • Congavata
  • Gabrosentum
  • Galava
  • Kirkbride
  • Maia
  • Swarthy Hill
  • Aballava
  • B(r)ibra?
  • Boothby Roman fort
  • Camboglanna
  • Maglone
  • Maiden Castle Roman Fortlet (Cumbria)
  • Milecastle 48 (Poltross Burn)
  • Milecastle 49 (Harrow's Scar)
  • Milecastle 50 (High House)
  • Milecastle 50 (Turf Wall) (High House)
  • Milecastle 51 (Wall Bowers)
  • Milecastle 52 (Bankshead)
  • Milecastle 53 (Banks Burn)
  • Milecastle 54 (Randylands)
  • Milecastle 55 (Low Wall)
  • Milecastle 56 (Walton)
  • Milecastle 57 (Cambeckhill)
  • Milecastle 58 (Newtown)
  • Milecastle 59 (Old Wall)
  • Milecastle 60 (High Strand)
  • Milecastle 61 (Wallhead)
  • Milecastle 62 (Walby East)
  • Milecastle 63 (Walby West)
  • Milecastle 64 (Drawdykes)
  • Milecastle 65 (Tarraby)
  • Milecastle 67 (Stainton)
  • Milecastle 68 (Boomby Gill)
  • Milecastle 69 (Sourmilk Bridge)
  • Milecastle 70 (Braelees)
  • Milecastle 71 (Wormanby)
  • Milecastle 72 (Fauld Farm)
  • Milecastle 73 (Dykesfield)
  • Milecastle 74 (Burgh Marsh)
  • Milecastle 75 (Easton)
  • Milecastle 77 (Raven Bank)
  • Milecastle 78 (Kirkland)
  • Milecastle 79 (Solway House)
  • Milecastle 80
  • Milefortlet 1 (Biglands House)
  • Nether Denton Roman fort
  • Uxelodu(nu)m
  • Verteris

Towns near Roman roads in Cumbria

These are the larger towns in Cumbria that lie within 5 km of a Roman road line on the map (not counting the hypothetical lines). Being close to a Roman road does not make a town Roman, but it shows where the old routes still pass by today.

  • Carlisle
  • Kendal
  • Whitehaven
  • Workington
  • Penrith

Source

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

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