Pye Road

Pye Road ran north from Camulodunum at Colchester to Venta Icenorum at Caistor St Edmund, binding the veterans' colony at Colchester to the Iceni capital in Norfolk. It crossed the Stour, the Waveney and the Tas, dropping in and out of the river valleys of east Suffolk. After the fall of Rome it remained the main road through East Anglia. Today the A140 follows almost the same line from Ipswich to Norwich. The medieval name is of disputed origin; most readings derive it from Old English pie for magpie, though why a road should take the bird's name is anyone's guess.