The Devil's Highway at Riseley
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The Devil's Highway at Riseley
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp Taken: 11 Apr 2017
The Devil's Highway is a Roman Road which runs in a north easterly direction from the deserted Roman town at Silchester. Its course can be traced for many miles, sometimes as surfaced road, or rough track, as here; sometimes as forest path or for quite a way just as the county line between Berkshire and Surrey. It eventually disappears under suburbs somewhere around Virginia Water. I think blaming The Devil for building a straight road says more about English randomness than about Roman efficiency.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.362043
Longitude
-0.955904