Monument record 2010/1/2 - Roman Road - East of Street Hey Lane (Chester to Wirral Route 670)

An excavation at Street Hey Lane on the route of the Chester to Wirral Roman Road in October 1960 revealed a continuous layer of cobbles. The ridge through which the sections were cut is not a normal agger (roman road embankment) , it was probably formed by ploughing away from the metalled road surface, so creating a feature resembling an agger. A Roman road has been traced along the length of the Wirral from Chester. The alignment starts from the Northgate of the fortress of Chester and followed a course through Mollington and Ledsham, then by minor roads and lanes to Street Hey, Willaston. From then on the exact course is unclear but is is suggested that the destination was Meols, a port on the tip of the Wirral in Roman and later times.