Roman roads in Gloucestershire
Corinium Dobunnorum at Cirencester was the second largest town in Roman Britain and a hub where the Fosse Way, Akeman Street and Ermin Way converged. The Cotswolds around it hold one of the densest concentrations of Roman villas in the country, Chedworth among them, built on the wealth of the wool and grain trade the roads carried. The A429 still runs fast and straight along the Fosse Way across the plateau.
- Mapped segments
- 52
- Surveyed length
- 430 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
Cirencester's Corinium Museum has one of the best mosaic collections in Britain, and the town's amphitheatre survives as a grassy hollow on its western edge. Chedworth Roman Villa, in a wooded Cotswold valley nearby, is a National Trust site with mosaics, bath suites and a spring shrine.
Named roads through Gloucestershire
Fosse Way
Isca Dumnoniorum to Lindum
Akeman Street
Verulamium to Corinium
Ryknild Street
Bourton-on-the-Water to Templeborough