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	Akeman Street
		Akeman Street was a major Roman road in England that linked London to the Fosse Way at Cirencester.
		Its route passed through various towns and villages including Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted[?], Tring[?], Aylesbury and Bicester[?] before changing direction towards the south-west going past Woodstock and Witney[?] to the north before heading into Cirencester.
		Part of the road is still in use today, between London and Bicester.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ak/Akeman_Street.html (65 words)

	Roman roads in Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The surface of the road was elevated and cambered so as to permit run-off of rainwater, with ditches on both sides of the road to drain it away.
		In some places, the origins of the roads were forgotten and they were ascribed to mythical Anglo-Saxon giants and divinities: for instance, Wade's Causeway in North Yorkshire owes its name to Woden, the supreme god of Germanic and Norse mythology.
		The roads were mostly destroyed in the 18th and 19th century when toll roads were constructed on top of the Roman originals.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_roads_in_Britain (1204 words)

	Akeman Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Akeman Street was a major Roman road in England that linked London to the Fosse Way at Cirencester.
		Its route passed through various towns and villages including Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, Tring, Aylesbury and Bicester before changing direction towards the south-west going past Woodstock and Witney to the north before heading into Cirencester.
		Some have suggested that "Akeman" derives from the Anglo-Saxon words for "oak-man".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akeman_Street (170 words)

	Akeman Street Airfield
		No 2 (P) AFU was disbanded on 13 July 1942, and its RLG at Akeman Street was transferred to No 6 (P) AFU at Little Rissington.
		For the remainder of the war Akeman Street was used by No 6 (P) AFU Oxford's for similar twin-engined training, until flying ceased there on 15 August 1945.
		Akeman Street was a grass airfield all its life, but the hard perimeter track is still in existence, as are the concrete foundations of wartime huts.
	www.leafieldvillage.co.uk /akerman_street_airfield.htm (314 words)

	Ermine Street
		There was an extensive Roman settlement on Ermine Street at Arrington Bridge - the southern tip of the parish at the ford crossing of the River Rhee [tributary of the River Cam].
		This point was also the junction between Ermine Street and Akeman Street, the Roman road to the settlement at Cambridge [Duroliponte] and on to the Isle of Ely.
		In 1663, Ermine Street was designated as the first turnpike road in Britain, whereby travellers paid tolls to pass through toll gates and the income used for road upkeep.
	www.arrington.org.uk /history_road.asp (1226 words)

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		They called their roads strata or streets; and all names of places containing the word street, such as Streatley, or Stretford, denote that they were situated on one of these Roman roads.
		The Ryknield Street beginning at the mouth of the Tyne ran through Chester-le-Street, followed the course of the Watling Street to Catterick, thence through Birmingham, Tewkesbury, and Gloucester, to Caermarthen and St. David's.
		The Akeman Street ran between the Iknield and Ryknield Streets, and led from what the Saxons called East Anglia, through Bedford, Newport Pagnel, and Buckingham to Alcester and Cirencester, across the Severn, and ending at St. David's.
	www.treasurehunting.tv /Roman_relics.htm (3518 words)

	Akeman Street - Definition, explanation
		The origins of the road's name are uncertain but certainly date back to the Dark Ages.
		Some have suggested that "Akeman" derives from the Anglo-Saxon words for "oak-man".
		Others have suggested a connection with Bath, which the Anglo-Saxons called Acemannesceastre (Acemannes apparently being a corruption of the Roman name Aquae Sulis).
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/a/ak/akeman_street.php (174 words)

	Roman road - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Greek roads vary from simple corduroy roads to paved roads using deep roadbeds of tamped rubble as an underlying layer to ensure that they kept dry, as the water would flow out from between the stones and fragments of rubble, instead of becoming mud in clay soils.
		The laws of the Twelve Tables, dated to approximately 450 BC, specify that a road shall be 8 feet wide where straight and 16 where curved.
		Parts of these were copied and sold on the streets.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_road (3334 words)

	The Beechwood Partnership, Property Development and Investment
		20 and 21 Akeman Street, located in the Conservation Area of Tring, comprised the restoration and extension of a Victorian cottage and conversion of the adjoining garages/store to a separate duplex apartment.
		This was a unique and ambitious project which revitalised this corner of Akeman Street from previously neglected buildings to character cottages, both finished to the highest specification.
		The adjacent barn (3 Queen Street) was converted to an individual 2 bedroom property adopting timber framed sliding sash windows, slate roof coverings and terracotta ridge tiles reminiscent of the local Victorian architecture.
	www.thebeechwoodpartnership.co.uk /Completed_Developments.htm (1600 words)

	Osprey - Boudica's last battle
		From Cirencester Akeman Street will bring them there in four days, either to be sent for from St Albans or London, or to be sent north to join the Foss Way to High Cross, or to be ordered north-east to Towcester.
		It follows the line of Roman Watling Street closely, but where the Romans were prepared to march straight up a hill, the stagecoach hurrying Mr Pickwick to his dinner at the Saracen's Head (then the Pomfret Arms) in Towcester could not manage the incline.
		The spot height on the summit over which Watling Street passes near here is 121 m (397 ft) and the spot height at the crossroads with the Alderton-Paulerspury road is 114 m (374 ft).
	www.ospreypublishing.com /content2.php/cid=206 (5020 words)

	Barns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		To the left, it goes all the way to the Bank of England, (Cheapside, Holborn, Oxford Street etc. are, technically, part of the A40), via Oxford.
		Akeman Street was the old Roman Road from Cirencester to St. Albans.
		Of course, the Romans didn't call it Akeman Street - that's an Anglo-Saxon name ("Street" may be a corruption of the latin "Via Strata" - meaning "paved road").
	www.strum.co.uk /wessex/barns.htm (332 words)

	Arrington Bridge
		The northern bank of the ford was also the junction [marked b on aerial photograph] between two major Roman Roads - Ermine Street and Akeman Street [modern A603], the Roman road running eastwards to the settlement at Cambridge [Duroliponte] and the Isle of Ely.
		John Layer, writing in the early seventeenth century, states that "Arrington Bridge is maintained at the charge of the County and is one of the greatest passages now in the kingdom".
		In 1663, Ermine Street between Ware and Huntingdon was the first in Britain to be made a turnpike, and a new bridge was built at Arrington financed by tolls.
	www.arrington.org.uk /history_bridge.asp (971 words)

	Hemelhempstead Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More
		It started in the Akeman Street area and by mid September there were 60 victims and two people had died, but the outbreak was still confined to the Akeman Street area - although there was a smaller outbreak in Berkhamsted at the same time in which two people also died
		He attributed the cause to polluted water based on the fact that of the total of 105 cases reported, 76 lived in the Akeman Street area.
		Some new sewers had been put in in Tring, but not in the Akeman Street area and he urged the council to act, which they did eventually.
	www.hemelhempsteadtoday.co.uk /CustomPages/CustomPage.aspx?pageID=4056 (586 words)

	Big Roman Dig - They came, they saw... Roman Roads
		Still known today as Watling Street in the many towns through which it passes, this Roman road covers over 200 miles as it reaches from Dover (Dubris) in the south-east to Wroxeter (Viroconium) in Shropshire, and onwards into North Wales.
		Akeman Street is a 78 mile Roman road which goes through Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire as a link between the provincial capital of London (Londinium) and the west country.
		Not to be confused with the Icknield Way (a prehistoric track that runs from Dorset to Norfolk), Icknield Street is a section of Roman road which runs north from Bourton, near Stow on the Wold, over 100 miles to Templeborough in modern Rotherham.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/B/bigromandig/camesaw/3_49.jsp (1827 words)

	Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire
		As there was no loop provided at Akeman Street, the first part of the journey was achieved with the locomotive propelling the train to Grendon Underwood Junction from where it would head engine first to Aylesbury.
		On 5 January 1991, this appeared to be the case and 47146 is seen in a welcome patch of sun waiting for the wagons to be unloaded.
		In this, another shot from the overcast 4 March 1989, 31247 is heading north on the former southbound tracks with the empties from Akeman Street.
	petertandy.co.uk /Bucks&ox_page.html (4210 words)

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		Yours, etc. George Jeffery, Chemist, High street, Tring MESSAGE 5: Date: 16 August From: Mr Eggleton, Property Agent To: Mr A.W. Vaisey, Tring Urban District Council Subject: Alma Place Sirs, With reference to your concerns, I wish to assure you that Mrs Tompkins' property (8 cottages in Alma Place) is in a sanitary condition.
		MESSAGE 25: Date: 10 October From: Joseph Budd, 64 Akeman street To: Mr A.W. Vaisey, Tring Urban District Council Subject: Well Dear Sir, I have made arrangements to have the Chiltern Hills water laid on to Willow Court as soon as it can be done.
		It is the only infected Yard along Akeman street that the Well has been allowed to be used again, and I quite expect more Typhoid after seeing the filth rush down the yard as I did last week during a storm, into the Well at the bottom of the Yard.
	www.thegrid.org.uk /learning/hals/docs/trimessagetext.doc (3518 words)

	Lets Unlimited: Fine Properties To Let in Herts, Beds and Bucks
		Tring provides a thriving centre for the outlying communities, with a high street at its heart that has retained charm and character and attractive period buildings that house a convenient array of modern facilities.
		Tring’s heritage extends from the Roman-built Akeman Street to the 15th century parish church, and from the Victorian influence of the famous Rothschild family to the post-war expansion of the town.
		The museum’s founder, Walter Rothschild, was reported to have driven a zebra-drawn carriage through the streets of Tring with typically English eccentricity – in recognition of his association with the exotic creature, the zebra’s head serves as a symbol for the museum.
	www.letsunlimited.com /area_tring.php (1092 words)

	Aston Clinton
		It is located at the crossing of two roman roads, Akeman Street and the Icknield Way.
		Akeman Street is now a very busy trunk road (A41) that runs from London to Chester.
		The Anthony Hall, now one of the villages' listed buildings, was given to the village by Lady de Rothschild in memory of her husband.
	www.btinternet.com /~mark.peers/achome.htm (444 words)

	Berkhamsted Official Guide
		In Roman times Akeman Street gave access to several villas in the area, and Roman remains in the form of coins, bricks, tiles and pottery have been found at several sites in the town.
		Berkhamsted would have become something of a sleepy backwater if it had not been that the High Street continued to be one of the major trunk roads from London.
		The heart of the town is a conservation area, with a comfortable blend of the old and the new.
	www.localauthoritypublishing.co.uk /councils/berkhamsted/history.html (1014 words)

	Aylesbury — a short history
		It grew up on the Roman Akeman Street; its market tolls are listed in the Domesday Book.
		The development of Aylesbury was initially due to the town's position at the centre of rich agricultural land.
		During the inter- war years the rate of population growth was relatively slow; the population in 1941 was 13000.
	www.bucksict.org.uk /Effective/WHTC/page3.html (495 words)

	Hemelhempstead Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The High Street will be shut off to traffic and together with Dolphin Square will set the scene for a night of festive family fun.
		This year the street entertainment includes a host of circus attractions from a fire-eater to a unicyclist, juggler and balloon modeller.
		GPs at the Rothschild House Surgery in Chapel Street were hoping to build a pharmacy to replace the chemists already in the street, which they say is too small for the current needs.
	www.hemelhempsteadtoday.co.uk /mk4custompages/CustomPage.aspx?PageID=36416 (1207 words)

	Detail Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The name Watling Street is also used for the road from Chester to Caerleon.
		Ermine Street ran from London to York from where it continued as Dere Street to the Antonine Wall.
		Akeman Street ran from Verulamium to Cirencester, and Stane Street ran from London to Chichester.
	www.fofweb.com /Onfiles/Ancient/AncientDetail.asp?iPin=HLAR0408 (1153 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The three major long distance roads (the equivalent of Roman motorways) are Ermine Street (the A10), which ran from London to York, Watling Street (the A5) which ran from London to Wroxeter via St Albans, and Akemen Street, (the A41) which ran from London to Cirencester.
		These routes were created by the Roman Army in the 1st century AD, although Akeman Street may have also been a Prehistoric route.
		In addition to these national, long distance routes, Stane Street was an important regional road which ran from east to west between St Albans and Colchester, the ancient capital of Britain, and like Akemen Street it was probably an important Prehistoric route before the Romans came.
	www.hertsheritage.org.uk /transport/rom.htm (210 words)

	Warwickshire Roman Roads - Warwickshire Web
		In the 9th century, Watling Street was used as the demarcation line between the Anglo-Saxon and Danish-ruled parts of England.
		The road was finally re-paved in the early 19th century by Thomas Telford who brought it back into use as a tollpike road for use by mail coaches bringing mail to and from Ireland, his road being extended to the port of Holyhead in Wales.
		Icknield Street, or Ryknild/Rycknield Street as it's also known, is a Roman road in Britain that runs from Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire where it connected to the Fosse Way, to Templeborough in South Yorkshire.
	www.warwickshire.gov.uk /Web/corporate/pages.nsf/Links/24604763C0DA462D802570DF003530AC (866 words)

	This is Tring.
		When local government was re-organised in 1974, the administrative area that includes the districts of Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted and Tring was named Dacorum.
		Tring is situated in a low point at the summit of the Chiltern Hills - the "Tring Gap" - at the junction of the old Roman Akeman Street (buried beneath the Tring bypass) and the Icknield Way.
		Akeman Street was a major Roman road that linked London to Cirencester, its route passing through Tring, Aylesbury and Bicester before veering to the south-west and its final destination.
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