Taking a ride on Watling Street: Celtic traders trudged it and Roman soldiers marched along it, but when two middle-aged would-be adventurers set out in an old Land Rover to trace Watling Street's route, their first move was stopping, for lunch.

British Heritage | July 1, 2009| | Copyright

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The discovery last year of the original Roman coastline at Richborough, Kent, revealed for the first time the actual beach Emperor Claudius' men crossed to claim the prize of Britain. After the Romans had managed to take over most of Britain, they built roads. And one of the most important led from the channel coast across the country diagonally to Viroconium, today's Wroxeter Roman City.

That was Watling Street.

The Richborough discovery made me curious to trace Watling Street, the Roman road that led northwest from there ...

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