Roman roads in Leicestershire
Venonis at High Cross, on the county's southern edge, is where the Fosse Way crosses Watling Street — traditionally called the centre of Roman Britain, and marked by a battered eighteenth-century monument. Ratae Corieltauvorum at Leicester was the tribal capital and keeps the Jewry Wall, one of the tallest pieces of Roman masonry standing in the country.
- Mapped segments
- 20
- Surveyed length
- 210 km
- Named roads
- 2
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 Jewry Wall Museum reopened in 2025 around the excavated baths, with the wall itself standing nine metres high beside them. At High Cross, on the Warwickshire border, a battered eighteenth-century monument marks the crossing of the Fosse Way and Watling Street in an otherwise unremarkable field.
Named roads through Leicestershire
Fosse Way
Isca Dumnoniorum to Lindum
Watling Street
Rutupiae to Viroconium