If the Romans had a motorway, the M25 would have been it. The 'Great Road' in Essex is believed to be one of the earliest ...

An ancient Roman Road said to be used by key historical figures including William the Conqueror, Oliver Cromwell and every King and Queen of Scotland, has been found in a garden near Stirling.

A Roman road network spanning across Devon and Cornwall has been discovered by University of Exeter archaeologists Laser beams were used to detect and create a map of ...

“Despite more than 70 years of scholarship, published maps of the Roman road network in southern Britain have remained largely unchanged and all are consistent in showing that west of Exeter ...

A well-preserved Roman road is among the finds uncovered by archaeologists in a city centre. The artefacts have been found in Manchester just below street level on Liverpool Road, near Castlefield ...

Two thousand-year-old road runs entire length of UK country and you can still walk it It is one of the most well-preserved Roman roads in the UK, its cobbled stone still exposed in many places.

1933: Thieves Lane to Roman Road When Thomas Telford built what would become the A5 in the early 1800s, it was so central that he demolished part of Shrewsbury Abbey on his way through the town.

Digging up London's history: Rail project unearths medieval ice skates, Roman roads and human remains Some fascinating pieces of London’s history aren’t in museums, but underground and work on ...

While our roads barely last 50 years, some ancient paved Roman roads still survive. A metre thick, they were built on compacted soil in four layers: crushed rock, mortared crushed rock, concrete ...

Beneath it is the original cobbled road, which may have been built when the Romans first invaded, as Capel-Davies tells BBC News. The Roman emperor Claudius launched the invasion of Britain in 43 C.E.