Roman roads in Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire sits where Watling Street and Akeman Street diverge north-west of London, and where both cross the Chilterns. Durocobrivis at Dunstable, just over the Bedfordshire line, marked the point at which Watling Street crossed the Icknield Way, a junction of the new road system with the old. Long green-lane stretches of Akeman Street survive across the county and are walkable in a day.
- Mapped segments
- 71
- Surveyed length
- 370 km
- Named roads
- 3
Measured from the Itiner-e survey within the modern county boundary, which for Yorkshire, Cheshire and the other counties broken up in 1974 means the traditional area reassembled from its present-day parts. The survey maps far more road than it attributes to a named route, so the segment count counts everything, and the named roads below are only those with a history recorded here.
Where to see it
The villa at Bancroft in Milton Keynes has its foundations laid out and interpreted in a public park, with a mosaic under cover. Verulamium's material is over the county line at St Albans, but the small town at Fleet Marston near Aylesbury and the temple site at Thornborough, with its two Roman burial mounds beside the road, are both Buckinghamshire's own.
Named roads through Buckinghamshire
Akeman Street
Verulamium to Corinium
Watling Street
Rutupiae to Viroconium
Icknield Way