Akeman Street (Cambridgeshire)

Akeman Street is the name given to a Roman road in eastern England that runs from Cambridgeshire to the north coast of Norfolk. It is approximately 75 miles (120 km) long and runs roughly north-northeast.

Not to be confused with the Roman road between Hertfordshire to Gloucestershire, also named Akeman Street.
Akeman Street near Landbeach, Cambridgeshire

Akeman Street joined Ermine Street near Wimpole Hall northeast to the settlement at Durolipons (now Cambridge), where it crossed a Roman road now known as the Via Devana.[1] Within north Cambridge, the road followed the present-day Stretten Avenue, Carlton Way and Mere Way running northeast past Landbeach before joining the present A10 and on towards Ely and The Fens. It then reached Denver and the coast at Brancaster.[2]

See also

References
  1. Malim T et al 1997 'New Evidence on the Cambridgeshire Dykes and Worsted Street Roman Road'. Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society Vol. 85, pp. 27 – 122.
  2. Gray, Ronald D; Stubbings, Derek (2000). Cambridge Street-Names: Their Origins and Associations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 2–3.
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