Jean de Waurin's Chronicle of England Volume 6 Books 3-6: The Wars of the Roses
Jean de Waurin was a French Chronicler, from the Artois region, who was born around 1400, and died around 1474. Waurin’s Chronicle of England, Volume 6, covering the period 1450 to 1471, from which we have selected and translated Chapters relating to the Wars of the Roses, provides a vivid, original, contemporary description of key events some of which he witnessed first-hand, some of which he was told by the key people involved with whom Waurin had a personal relationship.
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Great Road
Great Road 3B Chelmsford to Colchester
Great Road 3A London to Chelmsford
Pye Road 3D Baylham to Caistor St Edmund
Great Road and Pye Road is in Roman Roads.
The Great Road leaves Colchester along the A12 passing Langham, Essex [Map] to Stratford St Mary, Suffolk [Map] where it crosses the Suffolk River Stour and make a change in direction before passing Capel St Mary, Suffolk [Map]. After Capl St Mary the road turns north following a direct parh past Sproughton, Suffolk [Map], Bramford, Suffolk [Map], Great Blakenham, Suffolk [Map] to Combretovium [Map] aka Baylham.
The Great Road leaves Chelmsford, Essex [Map] along Sprinfield Road [Map] through Boreham, Essex [Map], Hatfield Peverel, Essex [Map], Witham, Essex [Map], Kelvedon, Essex [Map] aka Canonium, Marks Tey, Essex [Map] where it was joined by Stane Street to Chichester before reaching Colchester, Essex [Map] aka Camulodunum.
The Great Road left London at Aldgate Gate [Map] after which it crossed the River Lea then continues to Gallows Corner, Essex [Map], through Brentwood, Essex [Map], Ingatestone, Essex [Map], White's Place, Margetting [Map] after which it reaches Caesaromagus aka Chelmsford, Essex [Map].
From Combretovium [Map] aka Baylham the Pye Road continues along what is now the A140 through Yaxley, Suffolk [Map] where it makes a slight change in direction, through Dickleburgh, Norfolk [Map], Long Stratton, Norfolk [Map] to Norwich, Norfolk [Map] from where it continues east to Venta Icenorium [Map] aka Caistor St Edmund.