Roman Roads Map

Roman roads in Leicestershire

A map of the 165 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 Leicestershire at a glance

Leicestershire, in England, has about 165 km of Roman road in the Itiner-e atlas, mapped as 23 segments. None of it is classed as certain: 91% is conjectured and 9% is hypothetical, so the line on the map is a best estimate of the course rather than a surveyed route. 2 roads here have a well-known name, and the longest is Fosse Way. 3 Roman places (towns, forts, ports and stops) lie along the roads.

  • 165 kmof Roman road
  • 23segments
  • 2named roads
  • 3Roman places
How certainLength (km)Share
Certain00%
Conjectured15191%
Hypothetical14.99%

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 Leicestershire

The longest is the Fosse Way, with 41.3 km of it in Leicestershire.

RoadLength in Leicestershire (km)
Fosse Way41.3
Watling Street20.3

Roman places in Leicestershire

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

  • Venonis
  • Ratae
  • Medbourne

Towns near Roman roads in Leicestershire

These are the larger towns in Leicestershire 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.

  • Leicester
  • Hinckley
  • Wigston Magna
  • Oadby
  • Earl Shilton

Source

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

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