Roman Roads Map

Roman roads in West Glamorgan

A map of the 37.2 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 West Glamorgan at a glance

West Glamorgan, in Wales, has about 37.2 km of Roman road in the Itiner-e atlas, mapped as 4 segments. None of it is classed as certain: 95% is conjectured and 5% 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. 1 Roman places (towns, forts, ports and stops) lie along the roads.

  • 37.2 kmof Roman road
  • 4segments
  • 0named roads
  • 1Roman places
How certainLength (km)Share
Certain00%
Conjectured35.295%
Hypothetical25%

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 West Glamorgan

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

  • Nido

Towns near Roman roads in West Glamorgan

These are the larger towns in West Glamorgan 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.

  • Neath
  • Briton Ferry
  • Gorseinon
  • Pontarddulais
  • Glyn-neath

Source

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

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