Old Cumbria Gazetteer - Antonine Itinerary X, Cumbria

Antonine Itinerary X, Cumbria

locality:-

Ravenglass

civil parish:-

Muncaster (formerly Cumberland)

county:-

Cumbria

county:-

Cumbria

locality type:-

roman road

locality type:-

route

locality type:-

antonine itinerary

locality:-

Whitchurch

county:-

Herefordshire

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The Antonine Itineraries are not a list of all routes of the period. They appear to be official routes for periodic tours of inspection, visiting particular centres in a planned order.

The itineries are a manuscript list of 225 routes in the Roman Empire made in the late 2nd or early 3rd century. Three of the routes cross Cumbria, iters 2, 5 and 10. The itineraries list places and the distance of each stage. The accessible lists are medieval copies; these are not completely accurate, neither in placenames nor in distances.

evidence:-

old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 48 5)
placename:- Iter X

source data:-

Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.

evidence:-

old text:- Camden 1695

source data:-

Itinerary, Antoninus's Itinerary through Britain, published by A Swale, The Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, and by A and J Churchil, The Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.

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Itinerary, Antoninus's Itinerary through Britain, in Camden's Britannia, translated and expanded by Edmund Gibson, published by A Swale, The Unicorn, St Paul's Churchyard, and by A and J Churchil, The Black Swan, Paternoster Row, London, 1695.
item:- Armitt Library : A6588.4
Image © see bottom of page

notes:-

The route through Cumbria is:-

place in iter	place	roman miles	statute miles

Clanoventa	Ravenglass
Galava	Ambleside	18	20
Alone	Watercrook?	12	13
Galacum	Burrow, Lancashire	19	13

continuing through Ribchester, Manchester, Northwich to Whitchurch.

Jones, Barri &Mattingley, David: 1990: Atlas of Roman Britain: Blackwell, Basil (Oxford, Oxfordshire):: ISBN 0 631 13791 2

place:-

roman fort, Ravenglass
roman fort, Ambleside
roman fort, Watercrook
roman fort, Overborough

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