Roman roads in Norfolk
Norfolk was Iceni territory, and its Roman roads are the roads of an occupation. Peddars Way was laid out after Boudica's revolt was crushed in AD 61, driving straight through the tribal heartland to the north coast. Venta Icenorum at Caistor St Edmund replaced the tribal centre; because it was never built over, the full circuit of its walls and its street grid survive as earthworks in open fields.
- Mapped segments
- 26
- Surveyed length
- 350 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
Burgh Castle on the coast has the walls of a Saxon Shore fort standing to full height on three sides, and Caister-on-Sea keeps the foundations of a second Roman port. Inland, the Peddars Way between Castle Acre and Fring is the emptiest and most Roman-feeling stretch of the whole trail.
Named roads through Norfolk
Peddars Way
South-west Norfolk to Holme-next-the-Sea
Pye Road
Camulodunum to Venta Icenorum
Icknield Way