Watling Street

Watling Street ran from Rutupiae on the Kent coast to Viroconium in Shropshire, crossing Britain at its widest reach. It came ashore at Richborough and headed north-west through Canterbury and Rochester into Londinium, then on past Verulamium toward Wroxeter. Boudica's army marched south along it in AD 60 to burn Londinium and Verulamium. Her revolt ended the following year, probably somewhere on the same road, against the governor Suetonius Paulinus. The line survives almost intact today: the A2 traces it from Dover to London, the A5 from London to Shrewsbury runs along the original surveying within a few metres in many places.