Monument record 1700/1/12 - Roman Road - Aldford (Chester to Wroxeter Route 6a)

The course of Watling Street is marked by a hollow way. This is a grassy lane 350 yards long and 12 yards wide, bounded on each side by a ditch and a hedge. At the southern end of the lane, large kerbstones were found on the western side and traced in a continuous line for around 12ft and covered by less than 1inch of turf. Watling Street is the name given to the roman road that links Chester with Wroxeter, and Caerleon. It is not to be confused with the Watling Street that runs from the SE coast through London then onto Verulamium ( St Albans) and (Viroconium) Wroxeter. The route of the road can be followed from Chester to its crossing point of the Dee at Aldford and then onto Malpas where it disappears from the landscape.