Roman Roads Map

Roman roads in Dorset

A map of the 164 km of known Roman road in this UK county, drawn solid, dashed or dotted by how certain the route is.

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Key
  • Certain Well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m
  • Conjectured Known road, course less precisely documented
  • Hypothetical Route not pinned down, or existence uncertain
  • Secondary road Thinner line, any certainty

How accurate are these lines? Most Roman road routes on this map are approximate. The Itiner-e project, which supplies the data, classes most of them as Conjectured, so read a line as a best estimate of where the road ran rather than a surveyed route.

Roman roads in Dorset at a glance

Dorset, in England, has about 164 km of Roman road in the Itiner-e atlas, mapped as 30 segments. None of it is classed as certain: almost all of it is conjectured, so the line on the map is a best estimate of the course rather than a surveyed route. None of the roads here has a well-known name in the data, so the map shows unnamed Roman roads only. 4 Roman places (towns, forts, ports and stops) lie along the roads.

  • 164 kmof Roman road
  • 30segments
  • 0named roads
  • 4Roman places
How certainLength (km)Share
Certain00%
Conjectured16299%
Hypothetical1.61%

Certain: well documented, mapped to within about 50 to 200 m. Conjectured: known road, course less precisely documented. Hypothetical: route not pinned down, or existence uncertain.

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Roman places in Dorset

4 Roman places lie on or beside the roads here. Names come from the Pleiades gazetteer.

  • Durno(no)varia
  • Vindocladia
  • Lake Farm Roman fort
  • Maiden Castle

Towns near Roman roads in Dorset

These are the larger towns in Dorset that lie within 5 km of a Roman road line on the map (not counting the hypothetical lines). Being close to a Roman road does not make a town Roman, but it shows where the old routes still pass by today.

  • Poole
  • Weymouth
  • Dorchester
  • Wimborne Minster
  • Canford Heath

Source

Road lines: Itiner-e (CC BY 4.0). Places: Pleiades (CC BY 3.0). Lengths are measured along the road lines inside the Dorset boundary. See all data sources and licences.

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