Category: Route research

Here’s a Roman Road with the kind of beeline straightness you associate with those ironing-board landscapes south of the Severn-Trent line – but with the rugged verticality of the North. A Roman Road fit for a Yorkshireman. Via Virilis. You can just imagine Fred Trueman’s eighty-greats-grandfather holding forth over an amphora of Ovis Niger ale:…

Britain abounds in a peculiar type of shallow ‘ford’ that stretches the definition to great lengths – lengths such as 100m or more. Unlike a conventional ford, in this sort you go along, not across, the watercourse. It’s an uneasy jobshare between road and stream, with small fish temporarily accompanying you on your journey. Thanks to…