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Magna Via is a Roman road in Yorkshire that formed part of the extensive network of military and commercial routes constructed across Roman Britain. The road connected major centres within the province and facilitated the movement of troops, goods, and administrative personnel during the occupation period. Like other Roman roads in northern Britain, Magna Via was engineered with characteristic layered construction and would have served strategic purposes in maintaining Roman control and communication across the region. The route remains visible in parts of the modern landscape as an earthwork feature, preserving evidence of Roman infrastructure and engineering practices from the first and second centuries AD.
Magna Via is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1005782. View the official record →
Magna Via is a Roman road in Yorkshire that formed part of the extensive network of military and commercial routes constructed across Roman Britain. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1005782.
Magna Via is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1005782.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ventilation chimney and furnace house 260m south of Park Farm (1 km), Mill gas plant, Shaw Lodge Mills (2 km), The gibbet platform (2.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Magna Via's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Magna Via stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.