Sacombe: Lowgate Lane Roman Road
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Sacombe: Lowgate Lane Roman Road
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 21 Sep 2014
Lowgate Lane leading to Lowgate Farm forms a section of a secondary Roman Road, which linked the settlements of the region. Unlike the major roads such as Watling Street and Ermine Street, which were built to allow the strategic movement of military forces soon after the Roman Conquest and maintained thereafter as a tool of the provincial government, these lesser routes are generally thought to have developed in the second and third centuries AD to serve the emerging pattern of urban and rural settlement. Such roads, sometimes formalising far older routes, are thought to have been the responsibility of local government, and their construction emphasises the importance that the territorial capital (in this case Verulamium) placed on providing effective links between town and country. This section is now a Public Byway.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.863701
Longitude
-0.035757