Monument record 844/1/14 - Roman Road - Hollands Lane (Chester - Manchester Route 7a)

Roman road - Chester to Manchester. Hollands Lane runs N/S at the foot of a steep scarp which the Roman road had to surmount. A deep cutting now partially filled shows how an acceptable gradient was achieved and a terrace obliquely rising across the lower, less steep slope, linked the road below with the foot of the cutting. Both constructions are still clearly discernible in the garden at the rear of 'High Knowle', the cut through the crest showing as a wide V with the progress of its filling being marked by a series of successively buried hedgerows (1).

<1> Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1883 -, Transactions of the Lancashire & Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 83/162-163 Waddelove A C & E 1985 (Journal/Periodical). SCH3293.

<2> Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1970-Present, Britannia, 14/297 Waddelove A C & E 1983 (Journal/Periodical). SCH445.

<3> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, 1/218 1987 (Book). SCH3556.

<4> Margary, I. D., 1973, Roman Roads in Britain, /300 1973 (Book). SCH2903.