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    Akeman Street is a Roman road in southern England between the modern counties of Hertfordshire and Gloucestershire. It is approximately 117 kilometres...
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    Akeman Street is the name given to a Roman road in eastern England that runs from Cambridgeshire to the north coast of Norfolk. It is approximately 75...
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  • Royal Air Force Akeman Street or more simply RAF Akeman Street is a former Royal Air Force Relief Landing Ground located 2 miles (3.2 km) north east of...
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  • Akeman Street is a Roman road from Cirencester, Gloucestershire to St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Akeman Street may also refer to: Akeman Street railway...
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    Watling Street is a historic route in England that crosses the River Thames at London and which was used in Classical Antiquity, Late Antiquity, and throughout...
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    in 2009 by Cantiere Navale Visentini, Porto Viro, Italy as Akeman Street for Ermine Street Shipping Co Ltd, London, United Kingdom. Her sister ships are...
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    84 ft) on Ermin Way in Berkshire to 338 pedes (100 m or 330 ft) on Akeman Street in Oxfordshire. A trunk road in Britain would typically be 5–8 m (16–26 ft)...
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    joined Akeman Street and Ermin Way at Cirencester, crossed Watling Street at Venonis (High Cross) south of Leicester, and joined Ermine Street at Lincoln...
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    burials. The town straddles the Roman road called Akeman Street, running through as the High Street. Tring was the dominant settlement in the area, being...
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    known as Babylon ware. A Roman road, Akeman Street, passes through the city; the southern end is at Ermine Street near Wimpole and its northern end is...
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    Akeman Street was a railway station at Woodham, Buckinghamshire, where the railway linking Ashendon Junction and Grendon Underwood Junction crossed the...
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    located on the site of a Romano-British settlement, close to the route of Akeman Street. The name Cow Roast is almost certainly a corruption of the name 'Cow...
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    town, and Chesterton village is on the course of Akeman Street, the Roman road between Watling Street and Cirencester, about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest...
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    close to Metchley Camp has suggested another possibility. Considering Akeman Street as a possible route from the south-west, the Cuttle Mill area near Paulerspury...
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    Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). The High Street is on a pre-Roman route known by its Saxon name: Akeman Street. The earliest written reference to Berkhamsted...
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    south rises to a maximum of 141 metres (463 ft) on its periphery along Akeman Street, a Roman road, before ascending further in other more distant lands...
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    Strand, London (redirect from Agar Street)
    on the Antonine Itinerary, and which later became known by the name Akeman Street. It was briefly part of a trading town called Lundenwic that developed...
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  • proximity to the ancient Bernwood Forest. Woodham is on the ancient Akeman Street Roman road, which since the 1920s has been classified as the A41. In...
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    cater for eight thousand people on the north side, between the A41 (Akeman Street) and the A413 and the expansion of Fairford Leys estate. According to...
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    public house lies on Carlton Way, which follows the route of the Roman Akeman Street. Crime rates are lower here than in many parts of central Cambridge...
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    Cam (then still known as the Granta) and two Roman roads: Akeman Street ran from Ermine Street north east through Cambridge to The Fens and the Via Devana...
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    Rothschild Zoological Museum until April 2007. The museum is located on Akeman Street, in Tring, Hertfordshire. The Natural History Museum at Tring was once...
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    between the towns of Berkhamsted and Tring. Situated on the Roman road Akeman Street, a major Roman villa dating from about AD 60 was discovered in the village...
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    A428 A4010 A4012 A4146 A4155 A5 A508 A509 A5130 Roman roads Akeman Street Watling Street Notable junctions Handy Cross roundabout Denham Roundabout Magic...
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    national speed limit, fully landscaped routes that form the top layer of the street hierarchy for both private and public transport in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire...
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    Bagendon. Three main Roman roads met in Corinium: the Fosse Way, Akeman Street, and Ermin Street. By the mid-70s CE, the military had abandoned the fort and...
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    uncovered an earlier settlement of the Pre-Roman Iron Age. The Roman road Akeman Street passed through the north-west corner of the parish, and the lost 7th...
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  • used multiple airfields such as RAF Windrush, RAF Chipping Norton, RAF Akeman Street and RAF Moreton Valence as relief landing grounds along with RAF Honiley...
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    Roman Road of Ankara United Kingdom Akeman Street Camlet Way Dere Street Ermine Street Fen Causeway Fosse Way King Street London-West of England Roman Roads...
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    that may date from the Bronze Age. The course of Akeman Street Roman Road that linked Watling Street with Fosse Way passes through the parish just south...
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