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Culture, England, Roman Roads, Icknield Street

Metchley Roman Fort, Warwickshire Templeborough Bourton-on-the-Water Icknield Street 18b Alcester to Wall Icknield Street 18c Wall to Derby Icknield Street 18d Derby to Chesterfield Icknield Street 18e Chesterfield to Templeborough Icknield Street 18a Bourton to Alcester

Icknield Street is in Roman Roads.

43AD. Metchley Roman Fort, Warwickshire [Map] was a Roman Fort on Icknield Street constructed soon after the Roman invasion in 43AD. The fort was around 200 square metres in area and was defended by a turf and earth bank with a timber wall, towers and double ditches. In AD 70, the fort was abandoned, only to be reoccupied a few years later before being abandoned again in AD 120.

Between 43AD and 68AD an earth and wood Roman fort was first built at Templeborough [Map]. It was later rebuilt in stone. It is thought to have been occupied until the Roman withdrawal from Britain c. 410. Icknield Street crossed the River Don near the fort.

Icknield Street, aka Ryknild Street, is a Roman Road from Bourton-on-the-Water [Map] to Templeborough [Map]. Icknield Street is road RM18 in Ivan Margary's book 'Roman Roads in Britain'.

Stonehenge by William Stukeley. Table IV. A view a little beyond Woodyates where the Ikening Street crosses part of a Druid's barrow. Jun 9 1724.

Culture, England, Roman Roads, Icknield Street 18b Alcester to Wall

Culture, England, Roman Roads, Icknield Street 18c Wall to Derby

Icknield Street 18c Wall to Derby. Leaving Letocetum, Staffordshire [Map] aka Wall the Icknield Way takes a new alignment through Lichfield [Map], Streethay [Map], past Alrewas, Staffordshire [Map], through Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire [Map], Toyota Island, Staffordshire [Map] crossing the River Derwent before reaching Derventio [Map] aka Derby.

Culture, England, Roman Roads, Icknield Street 18d Derby to Chesterfield

Icknield Street 18d Derby to Chesterfield. From Derventio [Map] aka Derby Icknield Street takes a new alignment past Morley, Derbyshire [Map], Smithy Houses, Derbyshire [Map], Street Lane, Derbyshire [Map], Higham, Derbyshire [Map], Oakerthorpe, Derbyshire [Map], Clay Cross, Derbyshire [Map] crossing the River Rother before arriving at Chesterfield, Derbyshire [Map].

Culture, England, Roman Roads, Icknield Street 18e Chesterfield to Templeborough

Icknield Street 18e Chesterfield to Templeborough. The route of Icknield Street from Chesterfield, Derbyshire [Map] to Templeborough [Map] is unknown. Speculatively it passed through Old Whittington [Map], Hundall, Derbyshire [Map], Highlane, South Yorkshire [Map], Orgreave [Map].

Culture, England, Roman Roads, Icknield Street 18a Bourton to Alcester

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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.