King Street (Roman Road) - Aerial Photographs

Aerial Photographs

• King Street meets High Dyke (Ermine Street) near Ancaster.
• High Dike (Ermine Street) and King Street meet at the top of this photograph.
• Soil mark of King Street in the Long Hollow, near the A52.
• By Ropsley Heath quarry.
• The small roadside Roman town at Sapperton is centred on the long, green field.
• Road, soil marks and field boundaries at Lenton.
• Soil marks in the bare field at top centre and in the long field west of the airfield.
• Woodland boundaries on the chalky till near Kirkby Underwood.
• Property boundaries from Stainfield Roman town north-westwards.
• Stainfield Roman town and Clipseygap Lane, Hanthorpe.
• Clipseygap Lane and soil mark.
• The road, heading northwards turns aside from its Roman course as it meets Elsea Wood. The white patches towards the eastern edge of the field to the east of the road are the ploughed-out banks of the Car Dyke.
• The present road runs up the picture while the old turnpike bridge over the Glen is to its east. Until the 1820s the road northward descended from it to the tight turn seen under the crop in the pale field. McAdam took the tight bend out and in the 1970s, his new line was projected across a new bridge.
• The northern end of the modern King Street.
• The Maltby Drive houses are built on the Urns Farm early English cemetery, dated around the year 500. This was at the limit of the English advance into Britain at the time when the Dux Bellorum known as Arthur held the spread of settlement back for fifty years by his battles, beginning at the mouth of the Glen.
• Lolham Bridges. The diagonal brown feature is the London to Edinburgh railway.
• The junction between the two roads, Ermine Street and King Street, which are here, both defunct (just west of Station Road).