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I created this image in Print Composer using OS OpenData Vector Map District shapefiles. All cities are mapped at the same scale.
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I created this image using the buildings layer from Ordnance Survey's Open Data VectorMap District product.
All that's shown is building footprints for eight English cities, plus London. For the eight smaller English cities only those areas within the official city limits are shown (i.e. not the entire metro area).
I created this in QGIS 2.4 and exported from the Print Composer. There is a much higher resolution version available below - I turned this into an A0 print, which hangs on the walls of the Sheffield GIS lab.
This abstract map is a simple visualisation of the buildings from OS VectorMap® District. It gets its name from the resemblance to the images of galaxies that we are used to seeing from NASA.
It was created using Quantum GIS (QGIS).
Map created for xyHt magazine November "Open Source" issue. Uses Standard OS Vectormap District Style with added QGIS Shapeburst fill.
OS VectorMap District is an OS OpenData™ product and one of the OS VectorMap suite of national-coverage, contextual map products. It is available in two different styles and as either vector or raster.
The backdrop style is intended to provide a base map for customers who wish to overlay their own geographic data onto the map. We believe that the colour palette of the backdrop style offers a better context than practices such as converting raster to greyscale or applying a transparency.
OS VectorMap Local is a national coverage, local level product available in both vector and raster formats. Shown here are examples of the backdrop style raster and the full colour style raster. There is also has a third, black and white version to allow easier customer transition from a previous product.
OS VectorMap is a suite of national coverage map products for Great Britain that can be customised to create bespoke contextual maps for websites and applications.
To provide for as many of our customer needs as possible OS VectorMap is available in two different styles and as either vector or raster.
The full colour style is intended to be a complete map that works across all screen types and digital printers to provide context to geographic information. The backdrop style is intended to provide a base map for customers who wish to overlay their own geographic data onto the map. Both styles offer customers map hierarchy without using prime or pure colours, so even the full colour style will facilitate the addition of logos. Additionally the colour palette of the backdrop style offers a better context than practices such as converting raster to greyscale or applying a transparency.
We've created a Minecraft world of Great Britain using two of our digital map products that are freely available as OS OpenData for anyone to use, to build the world, OS Terrain 50 and
OS VectorMap District. The Minecraft GB World contains some 22 billion Minecraft blocks and is available to download and explore!
This is a still from an interactive map created using Geoserver and OpenLayers. The cartography was applied using Styled Layer Descriptors (SLDs) which is an XML schema specified by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) for describing the appearance of map layers.
The product used is OS VectorMap Local and this map was created to demonstrate the flexibility of using the vector dataset. The building heights are not accurate but have been extruded to add an element of depth and reality.
Using a style inspired by the gaming industry, the map presents Environment Agency flood risk data above building data from OS VectorMap District. The original, produced as a marketing piece, covers a slightly larger extent.
We've created a Minecraft world of Great Britain using two of our digital map products that are freely available as OS OpenData for anyone to use, to build the world, OS Terrain 50 and
OS VectorMap District. The Minecraft GB World contains some 22 billion Minecraft blocks and is available to download and explore!
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We've created a Minecraft world of Great Britain using two of our digital map products that are freely available as OS OpenData for anyone to use, to build the world, OS Terrain 50 and
OS VectorMap District. The Minecraft GB World contains some 22 billion Minecraft blocks and is available to download and explore!
We've created a Minecraft world of Great Britain using two of our digital map products that are freely available as OS OpenData for anyone to use, to build the world, OS Terrain 50 and
OS VectorMap District. The Minecraft GB World contains some 22 billion Minecraft blocks and is available to download and explore!
We've created a Minecraft world of Great Britain using two of our digital map products that are freely available as OS OpenData for anyone to use, to build the world, OS Terrain 50 and
OS VectorMap District. The Minecraft GB World contains some 22 billion Minecraft blocks and is available to download and explore!
We've created a Minecraft world of Great Britain using two of our digital map products that are freely available as OS OpenData for anyone to use, to build the world, OS Terrain 50 and
OS VectorMap District. The Minecraft GB World contains some 22 billion Minecraft blocks and is available to download and explore!
We've created a Minecraft world of Great Britain using two of our digital map products that are freely available as OS OpenData for anyone to use, to build the world, OS Terrain 50 and
OS VectorMap District. The Minecraft GB World contains some 22 billion Minecraft blocks and is available to download and explore!
We've created a Minecraft world of Great Britain using two of our digital map products that are freely available as OS OpenData for anyone to use, to build the world, OS Terrain 50 and
OS VectorMap District. The Minecraft GB World contains some 22 billion Minecraft blocks and is available to download and explore!
We've created a Minecraft world of Great Britain using two of our digital map products that are freely available as OS OpenData for anyone to use, to build the world, OS Terrain 50 and
OS VectorMap District. The Minecraft GB World contains some 22 billion Minecraft blocks and is available to download and explore!
Over the past few years, our CartoDesign team has created a bespoke backdrop colour map style that is currently used in our OS VectorMap products and web services. This poster aims to highlight its advantages over alternative methods such as greyscale.
We've created a Minecraft world of Great Britain using two of our digital map products that are freely available as OS OpenData for anyone to use, to build the world, OS Terrain 50 and
OS VectorMap District. The Minecraft GB World contains some 22 billion Minecraft blocks and is available to download and explore!
We've created a Minecraft world of Great Britain using two of our digital map products that are freely available as OS OpenData for anyone to use, to build the world, OS Terrain 50 and
OS VectorMap District. The Minecraft GB World contains some 22 billion Minecraft blocks and is available to download and explore!
We've created a Minecraft world of Great Britain using two of our digital map products that are freely available as OS OpenData for anyone to use, to build the world, OS Terrain 50 and
OS VectorMap District. The Minecraft GB World contains some 22 billion Minecraft blocks and is available to download and explore!
We've created a Minecraft world of Great Britain using two of our digital map products that are freely available as OS OpenData for anyone to use, to build the world, OS Terrain 50 and
OS VectorMap District. The Minecraft GB World contains some 22 billion Minecraft blocks and is available to download and explore!
We've created a Minecraft world of Great Britain using two of our digital map products that are freely available as OS OpenData for anyone to use, to build the world, OS Terrain 50 and
OS VectorMap District. The Minecraft GB World contains some 22 billion Minecraft blocks and is available to download and explore!
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City Mappers were the sole group to tackle the restyling of OS VectorMap District. They decided to work as a team to manipulate data and then each produced their own output based upon a common theme of road and transport mapping. In this example, Mary has clearly made roads the focal subject of the map and has decided to colour their relative importance with a sequential colour palette. All none road features were either omitted or muted into shades of grey for context.
Map by Mary Davies
The various shape files from a single 10km tile (SK53) of the newly released Ordnance Survey VectorMap District were re-projected from OSGB co-ordinates to WGS84 (using a modified wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ogr2osm using a general set of rules (from User:L%C3%BCbeck).
Output as a PNG at level=15 to ensure that road names are visible. Output resized to 50% for Flickr.
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“The road is found by the plough in the School-field; and in the next field, which is called Little Rushy Hey, it is found very plainly in the ditch which separates that field from Great Rushy Hey.
The Roman road then crosses the turnpike-road, in the Crow-lane, opposite to the Tanyard Barn, where it is discovered by the gravel in a piece of waste-ground; and it is again found in the Tanyard Meadow, near the foot road.”
[From “Some Account of Three Roman Roads which meet at Wigan, in the County of Lancaster, by Edmund Sibson, Minister of Ashton in Makerfield in the Said County”, reproduced in Vol 3 of Edward Baines' “History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster”, 1836]
“That there were cross-roads in the [Crow] lane is apparent from the fact that it traversed the Roman road from the south at the Tan-house or Holly-house farm... This farm apparently derived its name from the tannery that once stood near, and the adjoining thatched cottages were said to be occupied by the workmen.... I every day walked up and down the remnant of the “Vicinal” Roman road near the milestone next to Edwardson's House (opposite Clarke's Farm - now Holly House Farm); we called it “The Slutchy Lane”... The Roman road from the south ran through the farmyard -indeed, we have been told, the last vestiges of the road were found there some years ago...”
[From “Newton-in-Makerfield: Its history, With Some Account of Its People, Compiled from Authentic Sources by John Henry Lane With Notes and Reminiscences by Peter Mayor Campbell”, 2 volumes, 1914-16]
“In June 1985, through liaison with St Helens Planning Department, the then Archaeological Survey of Merseyside (part of the former Merseyside County Museums) was advised of a major housing development south of Holly House Farm, Crow Lane East, Newton-le-Willows. The l: 1250 Ordnance Survey map showed that the area lay on the line of the Roman road at NGR SJ 5832 9549. On a visit to the site in June 1985 a deep trench excavated for sewage disposal was found to have cut across the line of the Roman road, exposing details of construction in the side of the trench. The present section lay c. 230 m south of Crow Lane East and approximately 60 m west of the modern road serving the two schools south of Crow Lane...
The road had been constructed on an existing deposit of silt sand soil (7)*, and had been bedded on a foundation of clean red sand (6), upon which was laid a shallow layer of small sorted pebbles up to 30 mm in diameter. Above this was a layer of flattish Bunter sandstone slabs (4), up to 0.30 m across and averaging 50-60 mm in depth, laid to form a gently cambered surface 6.2 m in width. This in turn had been covered by a thin layer of fine pebbles (3), which measured on average 20 mm in diameter. The road was flanked on either side by a shallow ditch (19, 17) approximately 0.70 m wide on the east and 0.50 m on the west, both of which had been filled with sand and pebbles washed in from the uppermost surface of the road (layer 8 in ditch 19 to the east, and layers 9, 10, 11 in ditch 17). To the west the pebble surface had been dispersed beyond the ditch by the action of water and the plough and it is this spread of gravel that has been identified in previous fieldwork on the line of the road...
There was no evidence of Roman occupation in the vicinity of the road at this point.
The road construction corresponds closely to that found in the sections examined by Dunlop and Fairclough in 1928 and 1929 east of Winwick Hall Lodge, although they were unable to find any trace of side ditches.. .”
[From “Observations on the Wilderspool to Wigan Roman Road in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, 1985-1995”, Robert Philpott with a contribution by Ron Cowell, in Journal of the Merseyside Archaeological Society Vol 10/2000. *The bracketed numbers -“(7)” etc- refer to the sectional diagram shown left, below. A better-quality illustration is available to view at www.merseysidearchsoc.com/uploads/2/7/2/9/2729758/journal....]
Taken on 22 May 2018, the photograph looks west along Crow Lane from its junction with Queens Drive towards the Roman Catholic Church of SS Mary and John. The Roman route must intersect the Lane at roughly this point (OS VectorMap Local, 2018 version, has the intersection at SJ 583 957), although further excavations to the north of this spot in 2002 and at the Holly House Farm site in 2005 failed to yield any remains (“An Archaeological Excavation at Latham Avenue and Cole Avenue, Newton-le-Willows, St. Helens, Merseyside”, L Hayes & M H Adams, unpublished NMLFAU report, 2002; “Holly House Farm, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside: Archaeological Desk-Based Assessment and Excavation Report”, Mark Bagwell, unpublished Oxford Archaeology North Report, 2005).
“The Roman road crosses an old lane, called Townfield-lane. This old lane runs in a westerly direction from Newton, and, about a mile from Newton, it divides into two branches, one of which leads to Bradley Hall, and the other leads to Hall Meadow, in Haydock, and, passing through the Town of Haydock, is called Haydock-lane. This lane is in most places enclosed by stunted oaks; and it is probable, from this hedge of oaks, the township of Haydock derives its name. This old lane is 6 feet below the level of the adjoining field, where it is crossed by the Roman road, and the Roman road appears to have descended to the level of the old lane, at the crossing; for the materials of the Roman road are visible, at the bottom of the hedge, on the north side of the old lane. This seems to prove that the old lane was made before the Roman road.”
[From “Some Account of Three Roman Roads which meet at Wigan, in the County of Lancaster, by Edmund Sibson, Minister of Ashton in Makerfield in the Said County”, reproduced in Vol 3 of Edward Baines' “History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster”, 1836]
“Again crossing the turnpike-road [the Roman road] is found in …. a field called Mather's Croft, beyond which it crosses an old lane called Townfield Lane which, being 6 feet below the level of the adjoining ground, and the Roman road sloping down to it, is considered by Mr Sibson as proof that it existed before the Roman road... This “Townfield Lane” seems to have been an old British road, but subsequently used by the Romans; as at the point where it crosses the Sankey Brook, close to a tumulus called “Castle Hill”, two piers of a bridge remain... It leads from Haydock to Lowton, and is a sunken way.”
[From “Roman Lancashire: A Description of Roman Remains in the County Palatine of Lancaster”, W Thompson Watkin (Liverpool: Printed for the Author, 1883; Republished by Azorabooks 2007)]
“About midway between the Gasworks and the farmhouse the lane was crossed by the Roman road, visible in Mr Sibson's day. The road ran from the south … and joined the Wigan road opposite “The Woodlands”... Further on, on the right, is Lawson's Farm, occupied in our time by William Caunce, one of the original trustees of St Peter's National Schools. He was followed by George Gibbon and William Gilbert. The premises are now held by Samuel Kirkham.... On the field path, near the Glass Works, on the way to Haydock etc, there was a network of ancient paths that were ploughed up when Caunce left the farm...”
[From “Newton-in-Makerfield: Its history, With Some Account of Its People, Compiled from Authentic Sources by John Henry Lane With Notes and Reminiscences by Peter Mayor Campbell”, 2 volumes, 1914-16]
South of the Haydock/Newton boundary the modern A49 diverges from the Roman road, its route along the higher ground east of Newton Brook presumably influenced by the development of Newton (literally “new town”) and Winwick as important commercial and ecclesiastical centres in the later Anglo-Saxon period. A consequence has been that this section of the Roman road has been even more vulnerable to destruction and degradation through building and agricultural practices than was the case further north. As Robert Philpott observes in “Observations on the Wilderspool to Wigan Roman Road in Newton-le-Willows” (Journal of the Merseyside Archaeological Society, Vol 10/2000), “The failure of the section of the road south of Crow Lane to influence the pattern of field boundaries and local trackways suggests that it no longer played a role in the medieval landscape”.
“Townfield Lane” disappears from the map after the middle of the 19th century, but it can be seen on the 1849 OS and earlier maps running east-west from the main Ashton-Newton road opposite Lawson's Farm. Part of its route seems to correspond with present-day Billington Avenue and its continuation as an unmade track for a short distance to the west. The main photograph, taken on 22 May 2018, looks towards the Farm from Billington Avenue. Shown on the left, below, is a view from the unmade section further west, looking towards Lawson's Farm on the right and the modern Woodlands Business Park on the left. The camera position corresponds with the black square on the map shown above, right; it is just possible that the paler vegetation in the foreground of this photograph marks the subterranean remains of the Roman road (although the OS VectorMap Local, 2018 version, puts it closer to the A49 at SJ 581 965 – roughly, the camera position for the main photograph).
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I'm a massive fan of Alberto Seveso's work, which this is obviously heavily influinced by. This was my first attempt at this kind of Digital Art, took me about 4 hours and im pretty happy with the result :)
“The Roman road must cross the turnpike road near The Red Lion public-house in Park-lane, in Ashton in Makerfield: for a large patch of the Roman road in a very perfect state is found on the east side of the turnpike road in a corner of the field called the Outlet [TM 908], close to the gate.
Its course is marked with gravel in the field called Chapel Hey [TM 914], and it is easily traced across the next field, called Brook Hey [TM 915, immediately north-east of the Wigan Rd/Landgate Lane junction], near Land Gate.
The road is again found, perfectly formed of large stones and gravel, in an orchard at Land Gate about a foot below the surface. The road here appears to have been made into Garden Land [? TM 916 “Paddock”] by a covering of earth, and the broad round ridge of the road is very visible. The road is also found in the Little Cow Hey [TM 922, directly south-but-one from the farm], near Land Gate, about 4 inches below the surface and it is perhaps remarkable that, though the road here is very perfect, there is no indication of it on the surface of this field. The direction of the road having been previously ascertained, it was conjectured that the road would be found here and, on digging, it was discovered that the road here was formed of large stones and gravel and that it was 12 yards broad and 18 inches in thickness.
The road is again found in the Padroad Meadow [*] and in the Outlet [*] along which it rises to the top of Whithill. The line of the road is indicated by a hollow up the middle of those two fields, and by digging with a spade in this hollow the road is found about half a yard below the surface, 10 or 12 yards broad, and formed of large stones and yellow-coloured freestone... On the top of Whithill the road again changes its direction by inclining a little to the west, and it continues nearly in a straight line from the top of the hill to the White Pits at the top of the hill near the Old Hey Wood.
The road is again found in a very perfect state in a small field called the Croft [TM 946] adjoining to the Long Lane [Bryn Road], on the south side. The line of the road in this field is discovered by a round ridge, about thirty yards broad and a yard high, at the centre; for the road here has been converted into arable land by a covering of earth, about half a yard in thickness at the centre, which slopes gradually from the centre of the road to the level of the field.”
[From “Some Account of Three Roman Roads which meet at Wigan, in the County of Lancaster, by Edmund Sibson, Minister of Ashton in Makerfield in the Said County”, reproduced in Vol 3 of Edward Baines' “History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster”, 1836]
Rev Sibson's description of the route of the Roman road as it continues through Park Lane and Landgate towards Bryn Cross mentions several field names that may be unfamiliar to modern readers. Where possible I have highlighted these and other landmarks on the above extract from the Ashton-in-Makerfield “Tithe Map” of 1838, and inserted the relevant field numbers - “[TM 908]” etc- into the text. *“Padroad Meadow” and the southernmost “Outlet” (which, according to Rev Sibson, were near the top of the hill) are not mentioned by these names in the tithe documents. The OS maps of 1849 (sheet CI, surveyed 1845-6) and 1894 (sheet CI.NE, surveyed 1891-2) show the Roman route passing through plots 922 “Little Cow Hey”, 933 “Further Sparrow Lane Meadow”, 942 “Lath me Thorns”, (1849 map only from this point) 946 “Croft”and the intersection of plots 946 and 947 “Meadow At Back O'Th'House” before crossing present-day Bryn Rd. The OS VectorMap Local, 2018 version, has the Roman route crossing Bryn Rd at SJ 572 007.
The photographs show (left, from top) the former Red Lion on 5 May 2018, “The Bungalows” development at Landgate on 5 May 2018, Langdate Farm as seen from the west on 2 July 2013, (right, from top) a view of Landgate Farm from the top of Rose Hill on 3 November 2013, the south-side of Landgate Farm as seen from the Bryn Rd-Landgate Lane footpath on 19 July 2013
and a view towards the southern boundary of “Bryn Rec” on 19 July 2013.
The 1838 “Tithe map of Ashton within Mackerfield .... copied from a map in the possession of Sir John Gerard Bart with amendments” is preserved at National Archives ref. IR 30/18/18. The associated Apportionment Schedule -which lists the various field names, owners and occupiers in 1838- is at ref. IR 29/18/18.
“Oxford Archaeology North was commissioned by Wainhomes (Northwest) Ltd to carry out an archaeological investigation of a proposed residential development on land off Pipit Avenue, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside (centred on NGR SJ 5830 9530). The proposed development site is positioned immediately to the north of the Liverpool and Manchester railway line. The site is bounded to the north by modern residential development and is bounded to the east by allotments.
The archaeological investigation revealed that the majority of the site had once been referred to as a ‘Big Sand Yard’ on the 1839 Tithe map.
Current Ordnance Survey mapping shows the east side of the proposed development site lies immediately to the west of the presumed course of the Wigan to Wilderspool Roman road. Previous investigations along the route of this road have shown its position to differ from the course mapped by the Ordnance Survey. Therefore, there is a possibility that the road may lie within the outlined development site. Consequently, an archaeological programme of work was requested by Merseyside Archaeological Service (MAS) in order to identify and characterise deposits or features of archaeological significance that might be impacted upon.
A programme of archaeological evaluation was undertaken in the first instance in November 2005.
This consisted of a consultation of the Merseyside Sites and Monuments Record (SMR) and the excavation of two trial trenches (Trenches 1 and 2) aligned east/west across the eastern end of the development site. The trenches measured 20m by 2.4m and were positioned in an attempt to locate the remains of the Wigan to Wilderspool Roman road, should it be situated in this area.
Excavation of the trenches identified two parallel flanking ditches aligned north/south and were assumed to be part of the Wigan to Wilderspool Roman road, which would have spanned an area of more than 17.5m in total. The actual alignment of the Roman road, therefore, lies approximately 8m to the west of the assumed course plotted by the Ordnance Survey*. However, the road surface was not located and it was evident that the road had been severely truncated.... [This] is most likely to have occurred in the nineteenth century, during the extraction of sand for the local glassworks. The ditches were similar in profile to those identified flanking the Roman road in Acorn Street (Philpott and Cowell 1995), Crow Lane East and Pine Avenue (Smith 1992), all of which contained similar fills. In comparison, though, the results from Pipit Avenue showed a poor level of survival of the Roman road. This led MAS to request mitigation of the groundworks for the development in the form of a watching brief.
Consequently, archaeological monitoring of the excavation of the foundation trenches for seven house plots (Plots 1-7) was undertaken over five days in February, April and May 2006. This monitoring programme did not record any archaeologically significant features or deposits in addition to the information obtained during the evaluation. The flanking ditches actually lay outside of the majority of the foundation trenches. The western ditch lay within Plot 7 but the maximum depth of the excavations did not reach that at which the ditch was known. The footing trenches excavated for Plots 2, 3 and 4 possibly clipped the position of the western trench but these were also not excavated deep enough to intrude into the ditch deposits. On the other hand the trenches within Plot 5 were excavated to a depth beyond that at which the eastern ditch occurred but the narrow width of the trenches may have inhibited its observation....”
[From “Land Off Pipit Avenue, Archaeological Evaluation and Watching Brief”, C Healey and A Lane, Lancaster: Oxford Archaeology (North), 2006]
The significant redevelopment that has taken place in this part of Newton during the last 150 years makes the 19th century sources increasingly unhelpful as guides to the location of any possible remains of the Roman road.
Taken on 22 May 2018, the main photograph looks north-east along that part of Pipit Avenue that runs parallel with the railway. Trench 2 was underneath the house that now stands to the left of that behind the parked car. The position of Trench 1 was slightly out of frame to the right. The photographs on the left show (left) Trench 1, looking east; (right) Trench 2, looking west; (below) Trench 1, looking north. *OS VectorMap Local (2018 version) has the line of the Roman road at SJ 583 953; slightly to the east of Trench 2 as mentioned by the authors of the report.
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“In November 1991, the Field Archaeology Section of Liverpool Museum was notified by St Helens Borough Council of a planning application for proposed development of land at Pine Avenue, Wargrave, Newton-le-Willows, centred at NGR SJ 5844 9488 . As the area of the proposed development lay on the course of the Roman road, the developers, Maritime Housing Association Ltd, commissioned an archaeological investigation of the site in advance of the development. An east-west trench was excavated by machine across the supposed line of the road. The trench measured 24.80m long and 1.50m wide, with a maximum depth of about 2.00m. The site lay about 330 m south of the section in Acorn Street. The fieldwork was carried out by Lynn Smith and Steve Membery from 18-20 May 1992...
The pebble layer (9) was interpreted as a road or track. However, the markedly concave base to the pebble deposit, lying in a shallow scoop, gave the feature the appearance of a shallow hollow-way (10). The line of the road at Pine Avenue proved to be approximately 13m to the west of that marked by the Ordnance Survey.
No side ditches were observed in the boulder clay at this point.... The surviving pebble deposit may represent the remains of the compressed and sunken base of the road, or even a later repair or attempted consolidation of the surface by re-laying pebbles. The latter alternative is supported by the presence of a shallow silt deposit over the pebbles, indicating that before it fell out of use and silted up, any original overlying sandstone or gravel road metal had disappeared. Either way little survives of the original construction, and it is uncertain if in its present form the surviving remains represent the Roman road or a later track continuing the same alignment.
The form of the pebble spread at Pine A venue and the absence of side ditches, is very similar to Doggett's section of 1909, east of the Vulcan Engineering Works (NGR SJ 5877 9410)...”
[From “Observations on the Wilderspool to Wigan Roman Road in Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, 1985-1995”, Robert Philpott with a contribution by Ron Cowell, in Journal of the Merseyside Archaeological Society Vol 10/2000. *The bracketed numbers -“(9)” etc- refer to the sectional diagram shown right, below. A better-quality illustration is available to view here.]
Taken on 22 May 2018, my photograph looks north-east along Pine Avenue. The start of the “Roman Close” development, construction of which followed the excavations of 1992, can be seen on the left. OS VectorMap Local (2018 version) shows the Roman road crossing the new development at SJ 584 949 and Pine Avenue itself just in front of the camera position at SJ 584 948.