Roman roads in Lincolnshire
Lindum at Lincoln was a legionary fortress and then a colonia, a chartered town for retired soldiers, and it is where the Fosse Way and Ermine Street meet. The Newport Arch, at the north end of Bailgate, still spans the line of Ermine Street. North of the city the A15 runs on the Roman alignment almost all the way to the Humber, and King Street offered a second, lower route through the fen edge to the south.
- Mapped segments
- 55
- Surveyed length
- 500 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
Beyond Lincoln itself, the fort and small town at Ancaster sit where King Street rejoins Ermine Street, and the Car Dyke runs south from the city as a Roman earthwork you can follow on foot. The Collection in Lincoln holds the county's Roman material, including the tombstones recovered from the colonia walls.
Named roads through Lincolnshire
Ermine Street
Londinium to Eboracum
Fosse Way
Isca Dumnoniorum to Lindum
King Street
Durobrivae to Ancaster