Map Archive – to download:

Google Map – a link:

Google Map – with some plotted evidence – click this link

LIDAR:

This is a link to Environment Agency LIDAR mapping. Follow the link, type ‘Glooston’ into the place search box (top left) and it’ll take you to our location. Use the ‘layers’ function to select the 1m and 2m LIDAR resolution.

Topographical Map:

This is a link to a Topographical Map. Follow the link which will zoom in to our location. You can get a great ‘feel’ for the lie of the land, but there’s nothing quite like walking the footpaths to bring home the impact of topography on route making.

Mapping Software – two links:

These are two links to mapping software I’ve found so far: Maptiler and Georeferencer. I’ve struggled to integrate the results onto this website, but I’ll keep at it. As an example of what Georeferencer can do, click this link to look at Fowler’s 1828 Map of Leicester superimposed on modern mapping; use the ‘fader tool’ top right.

Nichols’ Source: ‘Observations on the FOSS and VIA DEVANA, by the Revd Thomas Reynolds’ (1794):

Bibliography:

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Chevallier, R ‘Roman Roads’ (London, Batsford: 1976)

Codrington, T ‘Roman Roads in Britain’ (London, SPCK: 1903)

Davies, E H Designing Roman Roads in ‘Britannia’, Vol 29 (1998) p1 [accessed at http://www.jstor.org/stable/526811 on 30/01/2022]

Hoskins, W.G. The Heritage of Leicestershire (2nd Ed, Leicester, City of Leicester Publicity Department: 1950)

Hoskins, W.G. Leicestershire: An Illustrated Essay on the Landscape (London, Hodder and Stoughton: 1957)

Kain, R, Chapman, J and Oliver, R ‘The Enclosure Maps of England and Wales 1595-1918’ (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 2004)

Kain, R,  J, Oliver, R, Fry, R, and Wilmot, S ‘The tithe maps of England and Wales : a cartographic analysis and county-by-county catalogue (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 1995)

Lee J and McKinley R ‘A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 5, Gartree Hundred (London, Victoria County Press: 1964) [accessed at http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/leics/vol5 on 30/01/2022]

Margary, I ‘Roman Roads in Britain’ (Revised Edition, London, John Baker: 1967)

Millum, D ‘What did Ivan Margary ever do for me? An excavation of the Roman Greensand Way at Plumpton (Lewes, Culver Project: 2008) [accessed at https://www.culverproject.co.uk/_files/ugd/6b387a_e338c29f463e43febccf522af8eb4c41.pdf on 30/01/22]

Muir, R ‘The New Reading the Landscape: Fieldwork in Landscape History’ (Exeter, University of Exeter Press: 2000)

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Ordnance Survey ‘1:25,000 233 Leicester & Hinkley’ (Southampton, Ordnance Survey: 2016)

Rackham, O ‘History of the Countryside’ (Dent Publishing, London: 1986)

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Turville, S ‘Finding the Gartree Road: A study in tracing the route of a Roman road through geophysical survey’ Unpublished MA thesis, School of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester: May 2013 (obtained via the Hallaton Field Walking Group, 11/01/2022)

White, W ‘History, Gazetteer, and Directory of Leicestershire, and the small county of Rutland’ (Sheffield: 1846) [accessed at http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/ on 30/01/2022]

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Archives consulted:

British Library – Maps Library [accessed at https://www.bl.uk/subjects/maps on 30/01/2022]

National Library of Scotland – Ordnance Survey and other mapping [accessed at https://maps.nls.uk/os/ on 30/01/2022

Ordnance Survey, c/o Historic England, The Engine House, Fire Fly Avenue, Swindon SN2 2EH

… particularly File ORD01/04/LIN/RR57a (Gartree Road)

Record Office for Leicester Leicestershire and Rutland, Long Street, Wigston Magna, Leicester LE18 2AH

… particularly File EN/A/122/1 (DE242/3) (Glooston and Cranoe Enclosure Award & Map, 11/06/1828)