The Long Lane (Derbyshire)
Roman road in Derbyshire, England
The Long Lane is the medieval and modern name of the Roman road that ran almost due westwards from Derventio, the Roman fort and vicus in the suburbs of modern Derby, through Derbyshire to Rocester (where there was a Roman settlement) and Draycott in the Moors. From that point onwards the same road – no longer called "The Long Lane" – continued through Staffordshire to Chesterton near Newcastle-under-Lyme. Its destination was Middlewich (Latin Salinae), from which the important city of Chester (Latin Deva) was in easy reach.
External links
- "Roman Army Built" with a photograph of The Long Lane
Bibliography
- "Roman Antiquities" in Daniel Lysons, Samuel Lysons, Derbyshire: a general and parochial history of the county (Magna Britannia. 1817) pp. 203-218
- M. Brassington, "The Roman roads of Derby" in Derbyshire Archaeological Journal vol. 101 (1981) pp. 88-92
- Ivan Donald Margary, Roman Roads in Britain. 3rd ed. London: John Baker, 1973. ISBN 0-212-97001-1
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- Francis Leggatt Chantrey
- Ernest Ellis Clark
- W. J. Coffee
- Derby Sketching Club
- Harry Fidler
- Harold Gresley
- Count Holtzendorff
- Richard Hurleston
- Alfred John Keene
- Henry Lark Pratt
- David Payne
- Ronald Pope
- Samuel Rayner
- Louise Rayner
- Thomas Smith
- William Tate
- Ernest Townsend
- George Turner
- Joseph Wright of Derby
- Ashford Black Marble
- John Farey
- William Martin
- Matlockite
- John Mawe
- White Watson
- John Whitehurst
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- Richard Arkwright
- Grotto in the Gulf of Salerno
- A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery
- Indian Widow
- Romeo and Juliet: the Tomb Scene
- Miravan Breaking Open the Tomb of his Ancestors
- The Alchemist Discovering Phosphorus
- Virgil's Tomb
- The Blacksmith's Shop
- The Earthstopper
- A Philosopher by Lamplight
- Samuel Ward
- The Captive
- The Captive King
- Dovedale
- Thomas Borrow and Ann Borrow
- Vesuvius in Eruption
- Atlas Coelestis
- Benjamin Vulliamy
- Whitehurst & Son sundial
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