Next Talk is on 28th April 2025 - Bathford Parish Hall at 8:00pm."Bathford and its Roman Roads - Who, Why, What, Where and How?" by Mike Haken, Chairman, Roman Roads Research Association - The Fosse Way not only forms the Western boundary of our Parish but is a fundamental part of the network of Roman roads provided a basic framework for our national infrastructure. However, their development in an era that was, compared to today, technically unsophisticated, might at first seem almost miraculous. Questions arise such as:
The Fosse Way did not arrive at Lincoln by accident, so how were roads planned and set out?
Where did the labour used to construct the roads come from: was it forced, military, or something else?
How were roads administered and who paid for them?
What were the basic principles which determined how the roads were built and surfaced?
From where did the Romans acquire the materials required for construction?
Why were Roman roads so straight while most later roads tended to meander?
Mike Haken, our speaker, has travelled from Yorkshire to answer these and other questions using the Fosse Way and a few other roads as examples.
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