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Re:The Roads of Ancient Rome Visualized in the Style of Mode... by mkarliner on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:42PM (#40604502)
The only dead straight main road out of London runs very close to my house. It was the Roman military road out London and ran for a couple of hundred miles. In Saxon times it was called Watling Street.
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Re:The Roads of Ancient Rome Visualized in the Style of Mode... by lpribis on Thursday June 06, 2024 @09:53PM (#40604565)
I assume this is the A5? That's very cool, I always thought it was odd how straight it is.
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Re:The Roads of Ancient Rome Visualized in the Style of Mode... by funnybeam on Friday June 07, 2024 @02:20AM (#40605803)
A5 north west of London and the A2 running south east of London
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Re:The Roads of Ancient Rome Visualized in the Style of Mode... by mkarliner on Friday June 07, 2024 @03:02AM (#40606017)
Cricklewood Broadway on my bit :-)
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Re:The Roads of Ancient Rome Visualized in the Style of Mode... by walthamstow on Friday June 07, 2024 @06:20AM (#40607148)
That's not the only one. A10 from Shoreditch to Hertfordshire is dead straight and follows the route of Ermine Street, the Roman road from London to York.
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Re:The Roads of Ancient Rome Visualized in the Style of Mode... by lqet on Friday June 07, 2024 @07:18AM (#40607485)
Ha, funny - we visited London for a week last autumn and stayed in Kilburn near the old Paddington cemetery, and every time we took the bus into the city I found it strange how straight the road was.
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