Letocetum, Staffordshire, Wall, North-Central England, British Isles [Map]

Letocetum, Staffordshire is in Wall, Staffordshire [Map].

Photos of the remains of the Roman settlement of Letocetum, Staffordshire [Map] including the Mansion and Bath House.

50AD. Letocetum, Staffordshire [Map] was an important military staging post and posting station near the junction of Watling Street and Icknield Street. The settlement developed with successive bath houses and mansiones built to serve the official travellers as well as the growing civilian population. It is known mainly from detailed excavations in 1912-13, which concentrated on the sites of the mansio and bath-house, but there is evidence of a substantial settlement with possible basilica, temples, and amphitheatre.

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.