Roman Britain, with Ermine Street highlighted

Ermine Street should not be confused with Ermin Street, the road from Silchester to Gloucester. Image File history File links Ermine_Street. ... Image File history File links Ermine_Street. ... Ermin Street (not to be confused with Ermine Street, which is further east) is one of the great Roman Roads of Britain. ... Silchester is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, UK. At the 2001 census it had a population of 918. ... Shown within Gloucestershire Geography Status: City (1541) Region: South West England Admin. ...

Ermine Street is the Anglo-Saxon name of a major Roman road in England that ran from London (Londinium) to Lincoln (Lindum Colonia) and York (Eboracum). It was named after a group of people called the Earningas, who inhabited an area that is now in Cambridgeshire. It is also known as the Old North Road from London to where it joins the A1 Great North Road near Godmanchester. Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ... A Roman road in Pompeii Road Construction on Trajans Column The Roman roads were essential for the growth of their empire, by enabling them to move armies. ... Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London (de facto) Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2006 est. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Londinium may refer to: An ancient Roman name for London (see History of London) Londinium (movie) A song by Catatonia A fictional planet in the TV show Firefly, (see moons and planets in Firefly) Londinivm, a free MMORPG. Londinium (album), an album by the band Archive This is a disambiguation... Shown within Lincolnshire Geography Status: City Region: East Midlands Admin. ... Lindum Colonia (otherwise simply Lindum or, more formally, Colonia Domitiana Lindensium) was a town in the Roman province of Britannia. ... This article is about the historic English city. ... This article is about the English city. ... Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs) is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west. ... Also known as the Great North Road. ... Sign at Junction 1 of the A1(M) at South Mimms in Hertfordshire The A1, at 409 miles (658 km) long, is the longest numbered British road. ...

The course of Ermine Street

Ermine Street begins at Bishopsgate where was located one of the seven gates in the wall surrounding Roman London. From here it runs north up Shoreditch High Street and Kingsland Road through Stoke Newington (forming Stoke Newington High Street), Tottenham and Enfield to Royston. This section of Ermine Street from London to Royston, Hertfordshire is now largely part of the A10. At this point it crosses the Icknield Way. From Royston, it was formerly the A14 to the A1 but now it is the A1198 to Godmanchester (Durovigutum). Ignoring bypasses and modern diversions, the road through Huntingdon to the Alconbury junction on the A1 gives the line. The section from Alconbury to Water Newton, ignoring modern bypasses such as that at Stilton, follows the A1. Ermine street used to pass through Durobrivae, the slight remains of which can be seen to the east, alongside the A1 at Peterborough. The modern road returns to Ermine Street north-west of Stamford, near Great Casterton, through which Ermine Street ran. Looking north from a pedestrian bridge across Bishopsgate Bishopsgate, in the heart of Londons financial district. ... Londinium is the ancient Roman name for London - the meaning is discussed in History of London. ... Shoreditch Town Hall Shoreditch is a place in the London Borough of Hackney. ... Kingsland Road is the name of a road, part of the A10, in the London Borough of Hackney in England. ... The Castle Climbing Centre, once the main Water Board pumping station. ... Tottenham is in the London Borough of Haringey. ... Enfield is the name of several places. ... Location within the British Isles Royston is the most northern town in Hertfordshire. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... This article is about Royston, Hertfordshire. ... The A10 is a major road in England. ... The Icknield Way is one of the oldest roads in Britain, being one of the few long-distance trackways to have existed before the Romans occupied the country. ... The A14 is a major road in England, running from the Port of Felixstowe to the junction of the M1 and M6 motorways near Rugby. ... Also known as the Great North Road. ... The A1198 is a road in Cambridgeshire following the route of Ermine Street between the A505 at Royston, Hertfordshire and Godmanchester, near Huntingdon. ... Post Street in Godmanchester Godmanchester is a small town in England, immediately south of the larger town of Huntingdon on the southern bank of the River Great Ouse. ... Huntingdon is a town in the county of Cambridgeshire in East Anglia, England. ... Alconbury is a village in the English county of Cambridgeshire. ... Water Newton is a village on the northern border of the English county of Cambridgeshire. ... Stilton is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, south of the city of Peterborough. ... Durobrivae was a Roman fortified garrison town located at Water Newton in the English county of Cambridgeshire, where Ermine Street crossed the River Nene. ... Stamford is a town on the River Welland in Lincolnshire, England. ... Great Casterton is a village in the county of Rutland in the East Midlands of England. ...

The post-Roman road wandered off for four kilometres through Colsterworth but Ermine Street continues as the B6403, through Ancaster (Causennae) to the A17. It then continues as a public right of way, easily walked, until Waddington airfield blocks it at SK981626. The section north of Ancaster, particularly this quieter part, is known as High Dike. It runs roughly parallel with and to the east of the A607 between Carlton Scroop and Harmston. High Dike takes to the level, open, dry country of the Lincolnshire Heath while the A607 wanders through the villages on the spring line below. Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth is a hamlet in the parish of Colsterworth, in the English county of Lincolnshire, best known as the birthplace of the scientist, philosopher, alchemist, and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton. ... History During the Romano-British period, the Romans built a roadside settlement on the site of a Coritani settlement at Ancaster and named it Cavsennae. ... The A17 road is a road linking Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, England, to Kings Lynn in Norfolk. ... In the United Kingdom, rights of way are paths on which the public have a legally-protected right to travel. ... Waddington-based Hawker-Siddeley (now BAE Systems) Nimrod R.1 RAF Waddington is a Royal Air Force station in Lincolnshire England. ... Harmston (population approx. ... Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the east of England. ... A natural spring on Mackinac Island in Michigan. ...

Another long section remains, now the A15, running north out of Lincoln, past RAF Scampton and Caenby Corner, as far as Kirton in Lindsey at grid reference SE9698. It then continues almost to the Humber at Winteringham. Before the diversion was made round the extended runway at Scampton, with a very slight diversion at Broughton, it was possible to travel about 53 kilometres, from the Newport Arch, the Roman north gate at Lincoln, to the Parish of Winteringham along a road so slightly curved as to be regarded as straight. This may possibly have been the longest single section of straight road in England. The A15 is a major road in England. ... RAF Scampton is a Royal Air Force station situated north of Lincoln in England. ... Caenby is a small hamlet within the civil parish of Glentham in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. ... Mount Pleasant Mill Statistics Population: 2,694 (2001 census) Ordnance Survey OS grid reference: SK936986 Administration District: North Lincolnshire Region: Yorkshire and the Humber Constituent country: England Sovereign state: United Kingdom Other Ceremonial county: Lincolnshire Historic county: Lincolnshire Services Police force: Humberside Police Fire and rescue: {{{Fire}}} Ambulance: East Midlands... River Hull tidal barrier. ... Winteringham is a village in North Lincolnshire and on the south bank of the River Humber, population 989 (census 2001). ... Broughton - situated on the roman Ermine Street - is a picturesque village. ... A parish is a type of administrative subdivision. ...

Roman Winteringham was the terminal for the ferry to Petuaria, (Brough), on the north shore of the Humber. From there, the road curved westwards to York. Brough is a town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, located on the Northern bank of the River Humber, approximatetly 10 miles West from Hull city centre. ...

English Settlement

This landing place on the south shore is significant because Winteringham translates as "the homestead of Winta's people". Apart from Woden, the god, the first leader on Lindsey's list of kings is Winta. Clearly, the end of the Jurassic limestone ridge at the Humber was significant in the English settlement of Lincolnshire. Winterton is a little further inland. Ermine Street and the River Trent together were evidently an important early route of entry into early post-Roman Britain. A god of the Anglo-Saxon /Early English tribes brought with them from continental Europe, around the 5th and 6th centuries until conversion to Christianity in the 8th and 9th centuries CE. Woden is the carrier-off of the dead, but not necessarily with the attributes of his Norse equivalent... Lindsey or Linnuis is the name of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom that lay between the Humber and the Wash, forming its inland boundaries from the course of the Witham and Trent rivers (with the inclusion of an area inside of a marshy region south of the Humber known as the... // The image above is believed to be a replaceable fair use image. ... Limey shale overlaid by limestone. ... For other uses see Trent River. ...

See also

• Roman Britain
• Roman roads in Britain

Principal sites in Roman Britain Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between 43 and 410. ... Roman roads in Britain consist of the extensive network of roads constructed and maintained during the period of Roman rule over the island (A.D. 43 - 410)(see map). ...

External links

• Map of Roman roads in Britain - very large map

References

• I. D. Margary, Roman Roads in Britain (3rd ed. 1973)
• Ordnance Survey 1:50 000 maps. (1972 to 2001)
• Ordnance Survey, Map of Roman Britain (3rd edn. 1956)
• Soil Survey of England And Wales, Soils of England and Wales , Sheet 4 (1983)