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  Stane Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stane Street, sometimes called Stone Street (Stane is simply an old spelling of "stone" which was commonly used to differentiate paved Roman roads from muddy native trackways), is the modern name given to an important Roman road in England that linked London to the Roman town of Regnum (near modern Chichester).
Stane Street is especially interesting as it shows clearly the principles of planning that the Romans used.
The line of the road runs south west from London Bridge, closely followed by the Northern Line through Clapham and Tooting up to Colliers Wood and Merton.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stane_Street   (268 words)

  
 Stone Street - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stone Street, Stonegate, Stane Street or Stanegate are a number of Saxon names for various Roman roads in Britain.
Stone, or its old spelling stane, was commonly used to differentiate paved Roman roads from muddy native trackways.
Stone Street is also the name of a street and historic district in New York City's Financial District.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stone_Street   (124 words)

  
 Watling Street
Watling Street, however, kept on higher ground to the south, nearly in the line of New Road, and on by Old Street Road, and at the back of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, and by Nag’s Head Lane, to the south-east gate of the Roman station Durobrivae at Rochester.
At Marykate Street the modern road rejoins Watling Street, and winds in a shallow valley with county and parish boundaries along the middle of it to Dunstable.
Watling Street enters it at the north-east, and the ford across the Severn is opposite the village of Wroxeter at the south-west of the Roman city.
members.tripod.com /EsotericTexts07/British.Romans.WatlingStreet.htm   (9201 words)

  
 Roman Roads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Stane Street originally ran from the invasion port at Fishbourne to a river crossing at today's Pulborough.
Some of the line of Stane Street is still in use as a road, particularly parts of the A285 between Chichester and Halnaker and the A29 between Pulborough and Slinfold.
Street End (near Sidlesham) probably records the end of the road in medieval times.
www.chichester.gov.uk /museum/tl3210.htm   (246 words)

  
 Big Roman Dig - They came, they saw... Roman Roads
Stane Street follows a route across Sussex from Chichester (Noviomagus) to London (Londinium), a distance of some 57 miles.
Starting in Chichester parts of the first section of Stane Street can be picked up at the southern end of the A285 and then across the Sussex Downs on parts of the A29, through the Roman settlements at Pulborough, Alfoldean and Ewell.
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.
www.channel4.com /history/microsites/B/bigromandig/camesaw/3_49.jsp   (1827 words)

  
 model railways
To transport Stane Street, we need to hire a short wheel based Transit.
Stane Street is the finesacle OO gauge layout of the Colchester and District Model Railway Club.
Stane Street is loosely based on the station at Rayne, on the former Bishops Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway.
homepages.tesco.net /~peke/layout/stane/text.htm   (280 words)

  
 House for sale - Stane Street, Ockley, Surrey, RH5 - Primelocation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A particular feature of the property is the range of useful outbuildings comprising a detached brick built car port, home office/studio and a workshop, all of which are easily accessed from the well kept gardens.
The property is positioned in a central village location off Stane Street giving easy access to all the amenities within the village.
Ockley village green is a well known landmark with its own cricket pitch, and facilities in the village include a village shop/post office, petrol station, four public houses, fish restaurant, farm shop, church, nursery school and infant school (ages 4-7).
www.primelocation.com /WSSAA7553   (222 words)

  
 Village of Ockley Community Web Site, Mole Valley, Surrey
A 3 bay cottage, which has been extended towards the street to become 2, now one again with the bakehouse at the back.
Held by richard Bax in 1648; by Thomas Bax in 1722 and the residence of Mary Bax in 1785An imposing house with Horsham Stone roof,original L shape has been enlarged.
Used to be a boarding school called the Ockley Academy for about 50 boys during the period of 1810 to 1860, after which the property was bought by Mr.
ockley.org /articles/historic_buildings.html   (1317 words)

  
 BeenThere-DoneThat: Coggeshall, Essex.
This was a medieval wool town on the route of the old Roman Stane Street.
This 16th century timber-framed house, situated in West Street, is one of the most interesting buildings in Coggeshall.
Following this street back into the centre of Coggeshall and out on the same line leads into West Street where Paycocke's is situated.
www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk /coggeshall.html   (306 words)

  
 LondonTown.com | Stane Close Guide | Stane Close London, SW19, England, UK | London Streets by Street | London hotel ...
Stane Close is located in the borough of Merton
The nearest underground station to Stane Close is 'South Wimbledon ' which is about 2 minutes to the West.
South Wimbledon tube, High Street, Merton, (2 mins to the West)
www.londontown.com /LondonStreets/stane_close_9ed.html   (81 words)

  
 STANE STREET MUMMERS
Stane Street Morris perform a play based on the Brandon Guizers' play.
I have a predeliction for "micro" performances, so the Brandon play is one of my favourites, and Stane Street's interpretation is particulrly good.
Red Stags were fortunate enough to be invited to Stane Street's performance at the Amberley Chalk Pits museum's Santa Fun Day 2001.
dspace.dial.pipex.com /prod/dialspace/town/avenue/pd49/morris/events/mummers/amberley.html   (521 words)

  
 History
The southern boundary is the Roman Road, Stane Street East, more familiarly known as the A120, this being also the parish boundaries of Little and Great Canfield and Hatfield Broad Oak.
The Street, Brewers End, and the other properties to the east of the crossroads at Takeley Four Ashes were built along the northern side of Stane Street and were once referred to as ‘TAKELEY ALL ONE SIDE’.
The CLERK was directed to write to the Chief Surveyor of Highways Essex County Council, drawing attention to the bad state of the footpaths in Takeley Street from the Four Ashes Inn westward and suggesting that a truck load of granite chippings would he the best material to put on the said path.
www.takeleypc.freeserve.co.uk /history.htm   (2342 words)

  
 Grange Paddocks - Bishop's Stortford and Thorley - A History and Guide
The Roman road Stane Street crosses Grange Paddocks in an east-west direction, and during one of this country's rare hot summers its track beneath the parched grass was clearly visible from the air.
The site was close to the point where Stane Street would have crossed the river, and it was hoped that some evidence would be found of a Roman stone-built bridge.
In the late 19th and early 20th century, virtually all of the land in this area, including that between Rye Street and the river, was part of the Gilbey estate.
www.stortfordhistory.co.uk /guide7/grange_paddocks.html   (1648 words)

  
 BRAUGHING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In recognition of this, five roads radiate out from Braughing, including Ermine Street on its journey to the north and, importantly, Stane Street connecting with Colchester: some of these routes, particularly Stane Street, are thought to have been constructed on aleady existing native trackways.
Air photographs show that buildings were arranged alongside all five roads and extended to roughly to the same boundaries as the preceeding Celtic settlement, which was of similar or greater extent.
Excavations undertaken along the line of Ermine Street, which skirted the settlements western extremity, revealed that both sides were lined with timber buildings, represented by gravel floors and post-holes, of which the earliest were Claudian.
www.roman-britain.org /places/braughing.htm   (520 words)

  
 SEAX Archaeology - Unlocking Essex's Past
In the Roman period Stane Street ran through Coggeshall to Colchester, and there may well have been a minor road on the southern side of the later town linking Stane Street to Kelvedon.
Excavations on the eastern edge of the town have revealed part of a Roman farm or villa complex, containing at least one masonry structure and one timber structure set within a grid of paddocks, fields and a droveway.
Later in the medieval period the focus of settlement shifted downslope to the area around the market-place just to the north of Stane Street, a movement which may be associated with the granting of a market charter in 1256 to the abbey.
unlockingessex.essexcc.gov.uk /content_page.asp?content_page_id=113&...   (373 words)

  
 Hunting the origins of Roman London
The main positive evidence comes from six roads: Wading Street east to Canterbury; Stane Street south-west to Chichester; the route west to Silchester; Wading Street north-west to St Albans; Ermine Street north to Godmanchester; and the route east to Colchester.
Stane Street and Ermine Street are aligned on London Bridge and the City, and are therefore probably no earlier than them.
But the two Wading Streets can be projected to meet at Westminster, suggesting to Sole and Fuentes a primary river crossing there.
www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/187187   (831 words)

  
 Stane Street   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Stane Street connected London with Chichester, the tribal capital of Sussex.
Its course is approximately that of the current road from Borough High Street via Kennington Park Road and Clapham Road.
The modern road has deviated in places for example at Clapham Common South Side where it is almost quarter of a mile from the original Roman Road.
www.vauxhallsociety.org.uk /Stane.html   (146 words)

  
 BRAINTREE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Occupation is concentrated primarily along Stane Street to the west and along the Caesaromagus (Chelmsford) road to the south-west of their mutual junction.
First century material is concentrated along the Chelmsford road, the settlement expanded west along Stane Street in the second century.
Several cremation burials ranging from the late-first to third centuries have been found, concentrating in the south-west angle formed by the junction of the Chelmsford road with Stane Street.
www.roman-britain.org /places/braintree.htm   (203 words)

  
 News Releases: Billingshurst Traffic Calming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The planning agreement with the developer included funding to improve safety, reduce traffic speeds and enhance the street scene in the village centre.
Following on from the village "gateway" signs and the priority one way feature recently installed at the southern end of Stane Street, further traffic calming works in a number of locations will be carried out over the next 3—4 months by Accord Southern Limited.
The High Street enhancement scheme will be prepared by Horsham District Council’s Technical Services Department in consultation with the County and Parish Councils and the works will follow on as soon as the plans have been agreed.
www.horsham.gov.uk /your_area/news_1747.asp   (370 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Hertfordshire's situation between London and most of the other major Roman towns in Roman Britain has meant that it has probably the highest density of major Roman roads in Britain, in addition to a number of smaller, regional and local routes.
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.
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)

  
 Farley Heath Road
It has long been suspected that the Roman road from Alfoldean on Stane Street, south of Cranleigh, to the site of the Celtic and Roman temples at Farley Heath extends NW to the junction, near Bagshot, of the Roman road to Silchester.
Both side ditches of the motorway showed a band of pebbles 12 inches below the surface, 18 inches thick and approximately 30 feet wide, aligning the the church and a continuation of the Farley Heath branch road from Stane Street.
1 The Rowhook - Farley Heath Branch of Stane Street.
www.chobham.org.uk /farley_heath_road.htm   (514 words)

  
 KENNINGTON
This was the Roman road of Stane Street to Chichester, now the A3.
This was built in 1836 as the Licensed Victualler's School and was the NAAFI HQ between 1921 and 1992.
At the end is the former ragged school of 1851 in Newport Street now the Beaconsfield gallery and performance art venue.
www.london-footprints.co.uk /wkkenningtonroute.htm   (809 words)

  
 Level 3 - Life in Roman Sussex - Transport & Communication
The most famous road is Stane Street, linking Chichester to London, which illustrates in its three main alignments the accuracy and brilliance of Roman surveying.
The construction of a Roman road such as Stane Street began with the digging of two parallel outer ditches, with two inner ditches defining the limits of the road proper.
An embankment called an agger was built up between the inner ditches, with top layers of gravel or flints (metalling) laid down to improve drainage.
www.romansinsussex.co.uk /level3/themes/life_roman_britain/trans_com.asp   (618 words)

  
 Five Oaks - Villages and Hamlets of Sussex
Bisected by the A29, the Roman Road Stane Street, Five Oaks has developed on land that belonged to the Norman Manors of Pinkhurst to the east and Wiggonholt to the West.
The hamlet got its name from the row of five oaks that stood on land “bounded to the East by part of the street from Buckmott Corner to Billingshurst” just to the south of the A264 junction to Horsham.
The trees are certainly shown on maps dating from the mid 17th century and mentioned in deeds of the same period.
www.sussexcoast.co.uk /villages/five-oaks.php   (489 words)

  
 A Brief History of Ockley
Stane Street (sometimes known as Stone Street) was built by the Romans between Chichester and London to facilitate the movement of troops, food and materials.
Much of the modern A29, including the stretch that passes through Ockley, is built on the foundations of the old Roman Road.
The centre of Ockley village gradually shifted from the area around St Margaret’s Church and Ockley Court area to Stane Street.
www.zednet.co.uk /ockley/listings/75.html   (726 words)

  
 The taxman's tavern, Alfoldean, Sussex (Sun 9 April) - Topic Powered by eve community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Located on Stane Street – now the A29 – the mansio was at the heart of a much larger community.
But could someone please tell Tony that the Romans didn't call their roads Stane Street, Watling Street, Ermine Street, etc. Those (under slightly different spellings) were the Anglo-Saxon names.
the Romans didn't call their roads Stane Street, Watling Street, Ermine Street, etc. Those (under slightly different spellings) were the Anglo-Saxon names.
community.channel4.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/8896096411/m/6780000044   (2065 words)

  
 Discover Dorking - Heart of the Surrey Hills   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Dorking - The Romans built a military road Stane Street, from the south coast to London, and where it crossed the east west tracks at the foot of the North Downs a settlement grew up which was recorded in the 11th century Domesday Book as the Manor of Dorchinges.
At the centre of Dorking at Pump Corner a great inn, the Queen’s Arms, stood on the corner of North Street – there is a surviving Elizabethan window visible behind the HSBC bank.
The Bull’s Head in South Street had a famous coachman, William Broad, whose portrait hangs in Dorking Museum in West Street.
www.visitdorking.com /default.htm   (527 words)

  
 BBC - h2g2 - Billingshurst, West Sussex, UK - A180109
The A29 dates from Roman times and is known as Stane Street.
Stane Street, as it passes through Billingshurst, must rank as one of the least straight Roman roads in the country.
The town is supposed to get its name from the Roman engineer in charge of building Stane Street
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/alabaster/A180109   (452 words)

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