Monument record 1700/1/14 - Roman Road - Eaton Park (Chester to Wroxeter Route 6a)

Watling Street in the grounds of Eaton Hall. Possibly road built on a foundation of wooden piers, where it crossed low marshy ground, on an alignment for the ford at Aldford. Discovered during the construction of the ornamental lake (Fish Pond RN: 1969/3) c.1839, fed from the Dee, in front of Eaton Hall (1). Traces of a causeway running W from the causeway of the Wroxeter road were said to have been found when the lake at Eaton Hall was made, but the statement is unconfirmed. 2 fields called 'Pavement Hey' and 'Stretton' lie respectively a mile due west of the lake, and a mile north of the first (5).

<1> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Ormerod G 1882 2/584 (Book). SCH1389.

<2> Thompson Watkin W. T., 1886, Roman Cheshire: A Description of Roman Remains in the County of Chester, /49 (Book). SCH2878.

<3> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, 1/217 1987 (Book). SCH3556.

<4> Chester Archaeological Society, Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society, Petch D F 1975 (Journal/Periodical). SCH1595.

<5> Taylor M V, Flintshire Historical Society Publications, 9/88 (Book). SCH1244.

<6> Cambrian Archaeological Association, 1846–present, Archaeologia Cambrensis, /442-3 (Journal/Periodical). SCH305.

<7> Grosvenor Museum, Grosvenor Museum Accessions (Index). SCH407.