This is a preserved section of the Roman road running between London (Londinium) and Colchester (Camulodunum), passing through what is now Gidea Park golf course in the London Borough of Havering. The road was constructed in the mid-1st century AD, probably shortly after the Claudian invasion of AD 43, and remained a major arterial route throughout the Roman period (1st–4th centuries AD), forming part of the principal land route between the provincial capital and the early colonia.
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The London–Colchester road was one of the most important highways in Roman Britain, linking the two largest urban centres of the south-east and serving military, administrative, and commercial traffic; the Gidea Park stretch lies on the approach to the posting station of Durolitum, thought to be in the Romford/Chadwell Heath area. Surviving stretches of the actual road surface are relatively rare in this heavily developed corridor, making the golf course section locally significant.
The road here survives as a low agger (raised embankment) visible as an earthwork crossing the course, and has been noted in antiquarian and local survey records, though it has not been extensively excavated. Detailed published findings from the site itself are limited, and most interpretation relies on its alignment with better-investigated sections of the same road elsewhere in Essex.
This is a preserved section of the Roman road running between London (Londinium) and Colchester (Camulodunum), passing through what is now Gidea Park golf course in the London Borough of Havering. It is recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places as a site site from the Roman period in Britain.
Section of Roman road on Gidea Park golf course is classified as a Roman site — a civilian 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 Roman villa south of Hill Farm (9.1 km), Roman barrow 260m north east of South Ockendon Hall (10.3 km), Roman villa 300m south of Long Shaw (10.4 km). Aubrey Research maps over 2,200 Roman sites across Britain, drawn from the Pleiades ancient world gazetteer.
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