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Ermine Street is a Roman road stretching from Bishopsgate, London to York and passing through Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Northamptonshire, Rutland, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. It was built during the first three decades following the invasion of AD 43, though much of it may have been along existing routeways. Much of the route is still followed by roads today – elsewhere it is often visible in the form of tracks, crop marks or boundaries. Ermine Street enters Cambridgeshire from Hertfordshire where the road crosses the Icknield Way at Royston. For much of its route through Cambridshire it forms part of the modern-day A1198. It leaves Cambridgeshire at the border with Huntingdonshire, just north of Papworth Everard. The section just north of Royston forms part of the modern-day A1198. This section of Ermine Street is within the council area of South Cambridgeshire (Cambridgeshire).

Place Type: Roman Remains
Historic County: Cambridgeshire
Lat, Long: 52.063416,-0.030521537
Grid Reference: TL 3510 4239
Civil Parish: Bassingbourn cum Kneesworth CP
Council Area: South Cambridgeshire CA (Cambridgeshire CA)
Strategic Authority Area: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough SA
Police Area: Cambridgeshire PA

GBPN ID: 301726
Entry Type: Main listing (P)
URL: https://gazetteer.org.uk/place/Ermine_Street,_Cambridgeshire_301726

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