Roman Roads Map

Roman roads in North Yorkshire

A map of the 560 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 North Yorkshire at a glance

Looking for Roman roads in Yorkshire? North Yorkshire is one of the ceremonial counties that make up Yorkshire, so this page covers its part of the map. The others are West Yorkshire, East Riding of Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.

North Yorkshire, in England, has about 560 km of Roman road in the Itiner-e atlas, mapped as 91 segments. None of it is classed as certain: 98% is conjectured and 2% 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 Dere Street. 12 Roman places (towns, forts, ports and stops) lie along the roads.

  • 560 kmof Roman road
  • 91segments
  • 2named roads
  • 12Roman places
How certainLength (km)Share
Certain00%
Conjectured54898%
Hypothetical12.22%

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 North Yorkshire

The longest is the Dere Street, with 80.6 km of it in North Yorkshire.

RoadLength in North Yorkshire (km)
Dere Street80.6
Ermine Street31.8

Roman places in North Yorkshire

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

  • Derventio
  • Eburacum
  • Calcaria
  • Isurium
  • Elslack Roman Fort
  • Roman Fortress at York
  • Virosidum
  • Cataractonium
  • Roman colonia at York
  • Newton Kyme
  • Roecliffe Fort
  • Roman Forts and Camps at Cawthorn

Towns near Roman roads in North Yorkshire

These are the larger towns in North Yorkshire 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.

  • York
  • Scarborough
  • Northallerton
  • Skipton
  • Haxby

Source

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

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