The River Wey aqueduct at Radford Bridge, Liphook, is a putative Roman water-management feature associated with the iron-working industry of the western Weald, likely active during the 1st to 3rd centuries AD. Such leats typically diverted water from upland streams to power bloomery washing, ore processing, or to supply roadside settlements along the London–Chichester (Stane Street/Iter VII) corridor. Its scale would have been modest — a channel of a few kilometres at most — rather than a monumental urban aqueduct.
Source: Pleiades — A Community-Built Gazetteer and Graph of Ancient Places. View the Pleiades record →
The feature reflects the integration of Wealden water resources into the Roman industrial landscape, where iron production was a major economic activity supplying both military and civilian markets. It also illustrates how secondary watercourses were engineered alongside major routes like the Chichester–Silchester road that passed close to Liphook.
Very little has been formally recorded or excavated at this location, and the identification rests largely on topographic and antiquarian observation of channel earthworks near Radford Bridge rather than stratified excavation. No published dating evidence, lining, or associated structures have been confirmed, and the Roman attribution should be regarded as provisional pending fieldwork.
The River Wey aqueduct at Radford Bridge, Liphook, is a putative Roman water-management feature associated with the iron-working industry of the western Weald, likely active during the 1st to 3rd centuries AD. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a aqueduct site from the Roman period in Britain.
River Wey aqueduct, Radford Bridge, Liphook is classified as a Roman aqueduct — a infrastructure site in the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer. Roman Britain's archaeology encompasses thousands of sites ranging from legionary fortresses and marching camps to villas, temples and towns.
Several Roman sites lie within a short distance, including River Wey aqueduct, Bramshott Court (1.5 km), Roman road at Chapel Common (4 km), River Wey aqueduct, Headley Park (5.7 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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