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Ermine and Street
The Romans begin to construct forts, such as at Peterborough, and a road that later becomes Ermine Street.
Its main shopping street, Kingsland High Street, follows the route of the Roman Ermine Street, and has the road number A10.
Shoreditch High Street and Kingsland road are a small sector of the Roman Ermine Street and modern A10.
Stamford Hill lies on the old Roman road of Ermine Street, on high ground above Stoke Newington, where it crosses the road from the medieval village of Clopton ( the modern Upper and Lower Clapton ) into Hackney.
Tottenham High Road was part of the main Roman thoroughfare of Ermine Street.
In Roman times, Enfield was connected to Londinium by Ermine Street, the great Roman road which stretched all the way up to York.
* Ermine Street, Roman road
Stamford was the lowest point at which the river could be forded so the Roman Ermine Street crossed the Welland here.
At, the Romans bridged the river with Ermine Street in the first century.
The Roman Ridge is believed to form part of an alternative route from Doncaster to York via Castleford and Tadcaster, as a diversion of the major Roman road Ermine Street, which may have been used to avoid having to cross the river Humber near North Ferriby during rough weather conditions over the Humber.
Doncaster ( DANVM ) positioned on the ' Alternative Route Ermine Street '
The main route between Lincoln and York was Ermine Street which meant crossing the Humber Estuary in boats.
Ermine Street is the name of a major Roman road in England that ran from London ( Londinium ) to Lincoln ( Lindum Colonia ) and York ( Eboracum ).
Ermine Street begins at Bishopsgate, where one of the seven gates in the wall surrounding Roman London was located.
This section of Ermine Street from London to Royston, Hertfordshire is now largely part of the A10.
The modern road returns to Ermine Street north-west of Stamford, near Great Casterton, through which Ermine Street ran.
The post-Roman road wandered off for two and half miles through Colsterworth, but Ermine Street continues as the B6403, through Ancaster ( Causennae ) to the A17.
Ermine Street and the River Trent together were evidently an important early route of entry into early post-Roman Britain.
As depicted in the Roman Map of Britain above it is important to note a sector of Ermine Street in which there was an alternative route.
As Ermine Street extended north out of Lincoln and past RAF Scampton the map attached clearly shows an alternative course of Ermine Street curving left and forming a semicircle on a wide heading west of the Humber Estuary.

Ermine and continues
From Grantham, which was the A52's original eastern end, the road continues as Bridge End Road passing the White Lion, then Somerby Hill eastwards, passing the Shell Somerby Hill Service Station on the left, rising up the valley of the River Witham to reach the ancient Ermine Street roman road at the B6403 / B1176 roundabout, which it follows for about.
Ermine Street continues as the B6403 northwards at Cold Harbour.
Heath Road continues the line of Ermine Street.

Ermine and north
The Bishopsgate thoroughfare forms part of the A10 and the section to north of the site of the original Gate is the start of Roman Ermine Street, also known as the ' Old North Road '.
Spitalfields was the location of one of Roman London's large extramural cemeteries, situated to the east of the Bishopsgate thoroughfare, which roughly follows the line of Ermine Street: the main highway to the north from Londinium.
The Romans built Ermine Street across what is now Burghley Park and through the middle of the town, where it forded the Welland, eventually reaching Lincoln ; they built a town to the north at Great Casterton on the River Gwash.
Cheshunt was a settlement on Ermine Street, the main Roman road leading north from London.
The A15 and Ermine Street meet at Bracebridge Heath, about 1000m north of the traffic lights for Canwick.
Ancaster lies on Ermine Street, a major Roman road heading north from London.
It stands on the A1198 ( Ermine Street, the Old North Road ) between the villages of Papworth Everard, to the north, and Longstowe, to the south.
The line of Ermine Street, when extended from its last traceable part at Harmston, south of Bracebridge Heath, runs north through Waddington to Heath Road in Bracebridge Heath.
It is located 14 km north of Lincoln on the B1398 road, which runs parallel to the main A15 ( Ermine Street ).
The town derives its name from the great north British Roman routeway, Ermine Street.
A Roman town existed just to the north of the existing village and the village is at the cross roads of two major Roman roads, Ermine Street and Stane Street.
In the south, King Street joined Ermine Street close to the River Nene, north of Durobrivae.
To the south of this point, Ermine Street runs along the edge of The Fens ; but to the north, lies further inland.
The Long Hollow Road and King Street were two of these, linking respectively, north and south, into the trunk road system by way of Ermine Street.
The village lies north west of Yaxley, overlooking the southern bank of the River Nene and close to the line of Ermine Street or the A1 road.

Ermine and Humber
Pevsner states that the Church tower " re-uses massive blocks of Roman stone ", but these blocks of millstone grit which are to be found in several local churches ( such as neighbouring Winteringham ) may have been transported down the Ouse and the Humber from York where Roman buildings were being dismantled, or may even have come from some sort of triumphal arch or structure ( perhaps like the Arch of Constantine ), which might have stood at the end of Ermine Street.
Hibaldstow was founded as a Roman legionary ' roadside fort ' on Ermine Street, the road from Lincoln to the Humber ; later it became a posting station.

Ermine and near
The name " Akeman Street " is also given to the Roman road that ran from Ermine Street near Wimpole Hall northeast to the settlement at Durolipons ( Cambridge ), where it crossed the Roman road known as the Via Devana.
Stamford became an inland port on the Great North Road that superseded the Roman road Ermine Street, which passes near the town, where it forded the River Welland.
The road skirts the southern edge of South Cave, and near Ellerker it crosses the former route ( and Ermine Street from Brough, then known as Petuaria, to York ) at the A1034 junction.
Other roads of Roman origin are the Salters ' Way, continuing the line from the Leicestershire border across Ermine Street near Old Somerby, to the then coast at Donington.
The story, best re-told by Ethel Rudkin, goes that there was a witch called Old Meg, an evil crone who plagued the local villagers from her cave or hut in a spinney near the turning to Sleaford on Ermine Street, here called High Dike.
Caxton Gibbet is a small knoll on Ermine Street ( now the A1198 ) in England, running between London and Huntingdon, near its crossing with the road ( now the A428 ) between Oxford and Cambridge.
The A1198 is a road in Cambridgeshire, England, following the route of Ermine Street between the A505 at Royston, Hertfordshire and Godmanchester, near Huntingdon.
The exact location was adjacent to the ancient Roman road Ermine Street, north-west of Little Stukeley village, near to the junction where Ermine Street became the A1 instead of the A14.
The Roman Road is a branch of Ermine Street, branching off near Lincoln and rejoining near York.
While Ermine Street crossed the Welland near the natural ford at Stamford (), King Street crosses at Lolham Bridges, which required much more engineering.
* King Street meets High Dyke ( Ermine Street ) near Ancaster.

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