Monument record 436/1/15 - King Street Roman Road - Broken Cross to Middlewich section

<1> Harris, B.E. (ed), 1987, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume I, 1/220 Petch D F 1987 (Book). SCH3556.

From Broken Cross to Middlewich, for a distance of near 7km, an impressively straight section of King Street Roman road is still in use (present A530 and B5309). Camden described this road as 'a noble way from Middlewich to Northwich, which has been raised so high with gravel, that one may easily discern it to be Roman'.

<2> Margary, I. D., 1973, Roman Roads in Britain, /302 1957 (Book). SCH2903.

Margary route 70a. A fine and typical example of a Roman road, raised 2-3ft generally and with the traditional name of King Street, sometimes appearing in a corrupted form as Kind Street. Parish boundaries follow it in some places.

<3> University of Manchester Archaeological Unit, 1996, Gadbrook Park II, Northwich, Cheshire: An Archaeological Assessment (Client Report). SCH4070.

An archaeological assessment (desk-based study and walkover survey) was undertaken in 1996 in advance of a proposed development at Gadbrook Park II, Northwich. The report observes that the embankment of the modern A530, which is circa 6m wide, is carried on a much wider embankment, circa 12 metres in width. This embankment is thought to represent the agger of the Roman road from Wilderspool to Kinderton. Its width is consistent with the width of some 13m of the agger recorded further to the north at Stretton. The embankment measures approximately 1m in height; the gradient of its sides in the location of the development site is steeper on the west side than the east, potentially reflecting varying degrees of slippage, colluviation or truncation.

<4> Higham N J, 1984-9, Professor Nick Higham's Aerial Photographs, 1989/3/22-24, 03/07/1989 (Aerial Photograph). SCH7659.