Fosse Way

This is the road we take to Cirencester, a 20 minute drive away, the A429. I have taken a quick shot of a very curvy part of the road but what you notice, when driving it, is how incredibly straight it is.

It uses much of the Fosse Way, a Roman road in England that linked Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) in South West England to Lincoln (Lindum Colonia) in Lincolnshire, via Ilchester (Lindinis), Bath (Aquae Sulis), Cirencester (Corinium) and Leicester (Ratae Corieltauvorum). I am fascinated by novels (such as those by Simon Scarrow) that take us back to Roman times and in particular the invasion of Britain. So I really get a kick out of travelling on a road when centurions once marched, even if it has been tarmacked a few times since those days.