Akeman Street

Akeman Street is a Roman road in southern England between the modern counties of Hertfordshire and Gloucestershire [1]. It is approximately 117 kilometres long and runs roughly east–west [1]. Akeman Street linked Watling Street just north of Verulamium (near modern St Albans) with the Fosse Way at Corinium Dobunnorum (now Cirencester) [1]. Evidence suggests that the route may well have been an older track, metalled and reorganised by the Romans [1]. Its course passes through towns and villages including Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, Tring, Aylesbury, Alchester (outside modern Bicester), Stonesfield (where a large Roman villa was discovered around 1712), Chesterton, Kirtlington, Ramsden and Asthall [1].