Akeman Street

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Course of Akeman Street
east of Cirencester, a modern street follows Akeman Street

The Akeman Street is a Roman road in England that the " Watling Street in" Verulamium (now St Albans ) with the " Fosse Way " at Corinium Dobunnorum (today Cirencester connects).

history

Akeman Street is the medieval name for a main thoroughfare in Roman Britain . There are various theories about the origin of the name "Akeman Street". The name may have been derived from Acenemanes Ceastre (Saxon name for Bath ), which is connected to Corinium Dobunnorum by the " Mere Way ", an extension of Akeman Street . Others consider it to be an Anglo-Saxon name made up of the words "oak" and "man".

Akeman Street was one of the highways used by the Romans in the 1st century AD to open up the new Roman province of Britannia ( Britain ). From the 1st to the 4th century AD, numerous settlement centers emerged along the road. Akeman Street lost its importance in 1753 when the connection from Oxford via Cirencester to Bath was expanded a little further north. Today the A 411 follows the old Roman route for long stretches .

literature

  • Ronald D. Gray, Derek Stubbings: Cambridge Street-Names: Their Origins and Associations . Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-052178956-1 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b John Cannon: A Dictionary of British History . Oxford University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-019955038-8 , o.p.
  2. ↑ Ronald D. Gray, Derek Stubbings: Cambridge Street-Names: Their Origins and Associations . Cambridge University Press, 2000, ISBN 978-052178956-1 , p. 3.
  3. ↑ a b Tom Williamson: The Origins of Hertfordshire . University of Hertfordshire Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-905313-95-2 , p. 61.
  4. ^ David Rollison: The Local Origins of Modern Society: Gloucestershire 1500-1800 , Routledge, 1992, ISBN 978-020399149-7 , p. 56.