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Worstead Street is a Roman road in Cambridgeshire that formed part of the Via Devana, a major route connecting the Roman settlements of Godmanchester and Chester. The road runs through the landscape near Cambridge in a characteristically straight alignment typical of Roman engineering, demonstrating the systematic infrastructure development of Roman Britain during the first and second centuries AD. The Via Devana served as an important military and commercial thoroughfare, facilitating movement between the garrison at Chester and the administrative and trading centre at Godmanchester. The surviving section of Worstead Street preserves evidence of this significant Roman communication network and remains visible as a linear archaeological monument in the modern landscape.
Worstead Street (Via Devana) near Cambridge is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1003263. View the official record →
Worstead Street is a Roman road in Cambridgeshire that formed part of the Via Devana, a major route connecting the Roman settlements of Godmanchester and Chester. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1003263.
Worstead Street (Via Devana) near Cambridge 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 1003263.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Bowl barrow 1080m north east of Worsted Lodge Farm, part of a dispersed round barrow cemetery in Charterhouse Plantation (4.6 km), Settlement NW of Little Shelford (5 km), Borough Hill: a large multivallate hillfort (5.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Worstead Street (Via Devana) near Cambridge'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.
Worstead Street (Via Devana) near Cambridge stands on White Chalk Subgroup, bedrock that formed in the Maastrichtian. The rock here is chalk.