Roman roads in Somerset
The Fosse Way crosses Somerset from Lindinis at Ilchester toward Aquae Sulis at Bath, where the hot springs and the temple of Sulis Minerva made one of the most visited sites in Roman Britain. The Mendips were mined for lead on an industrial scale from within a few years of the invasion, and lead pigs stamped with imperial names travelled out along this road. The clearest surviving agger is in the fields near Radstock.
- Mapped segments
- 28
- Surveyed length
- 210 km
- Named roads
- 1
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
Bath is unmissable: the Roman Baths are the best-preserved Roman religious spa complex north of the Alps, with the spring, the great bath and the temple pediment of Sulis Minerva. Charterhouse on Mendip has the earthworks of the lead-mining settlement and a small amphitheatre.
Named roads through Somerset
Fosse Way
Isca Dumnoniorum to Lindum