Roman roads in Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire has an unusual density of Roman road because three major routes leave London through it. Verulamium at St Albans was one of the largest towns in Roman Britain and the junction where Watling Street met Akeman Street; Boudica's army sacked it in AD 60 or 61, and the town rebuilt on a grander scale afterward. Ermine Street runs up the east of the county toward Braughing, and the prehistoric Icknield Way crosses the north along the chalk.
- Mapped segments
- 99
- Surveyed length
- 410 km
- Named roads
- 4
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
Verulamium Park at St Albans has the town walls, the London Gate, a hypocaust under cover and the only Roman theatre visible in Britain, across the road on private land but open to visitors. The Verulamium Museum holds the mosaics lifted from the town.
Named roads through Hertfordshire
Watling Street
Rutupiae to Viroconium
Ermine Street
Londinium to Eboracum
Akeman Street
Verulamium to Corinium
Icknield Way