Roman Roads Map

Roman roads in Northumberland

A map of the 298 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 Northumberland at a glance

Northumberland, in England, has about 298 km of Roman road in the Itiner-e atlas, mapped as 23 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. One road here has a well-known name, and the longest is Dere Street. 56 Roman places (towns, forts, ports and stops) lie along the roads.

  • 298 kmof Roman road
  • 23segments
  • 1named road
  • 56Roman places
How certainLength (km)Share
Certain00%
Conjectured298100%
Hypothetical0.10%

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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Named Roman roads in Northumberland

The longest is the Dere Street, with 69.2 km of it in Northumberland.

RoadLength in Northumberland (km)
Dere Street69.2

Roman places in Northumberland

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

  • Magnis
  • Milecastle 22 (Portgate)
  • Alauna
  • Bremenium
  • Coriosopitum
  • Onnum
  • (A)Esica
  • Barcombe Hill Roman Signal Station
  • Brocolitia
  • Chew Green
  • Cilurnum
  • Epiakon (Epiacum)
  • Habitancum
  • Haltwhistle Burn Roman Fortlet and Camp
  • Milecastle 12 (Heddon)
  • Milecastle 13 (Rudchester Burn)
  • Milecastle 14 (March Burn)
  • Milecastle 15 (Whitchester)
  • Milecastle 16 (Harlow Hill)
  • Milecastle 17 (Welton)
  • Milecastle 18 (East Wallhouses)
  • Milecastle 19 (Matfen Piers)
  • Milecastle 20 (Halton Shields)
  • Milecastle 21 (Down Hill)
  • Milecastle 23 (Stanley)
  • Milecastle 24 (Wall Fell)
  • Milecastle 25 (Codlawhill)
  • Milecastle 26 (Planetrees)
  • Milecastle 27 (Low Brunton)
  • Milecastle 28 (Walwick)
  • Milecastle 29 (Tower Tye)
  • Milecastle 30 (Limestone Corner)
  • Milecastle 31 (Carrowburgh)
  • Milecastle 32 (Carraw)
  • Milecastle 33 (Shield-on-the-Wall)
  • Milecastle 34 (Grindon)
  • Milecastle 35 (Sewingshields)
  • Milecastle 36 (King's Hill)
  • Milecastle 37 (Housesteads)
  • Milecastle 38 (Hotbank)
  • Milecastle 39 (Castle Nick)
  • Milecastle 40 (Winshields)
  • Milecastle 41 (Melkridge)
  • Milecastle 42 (Cawfields)
  • Milecastle 43
  • Milecastle 44 (Allolee)
  • Milecastle 45 (Walltown)
  • Milecastle 46 (Carvoran)
  • Milecastle 47 (Chapel House)
  • Turret 31B (Carraw East)
  • Turret 32A (Carraw West)
  • Turret 32B (Brown Moor)
  • Turret 42B (Great Chesters)
  • Vercovicium
  • Vindolanda
  • Vindovala

Towns near Roman roads in Northumberland

These are the larger towns in Northumberland 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.

  • Darras Hall
  • Prudhoe
  • Berwick-Upon-Tweed
  • Hexham

Source

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

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