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Position:Home>History> What is the oldest street in London?Question:One of London's oldest streets could be this one : - City of London: Roman Fort and City Wall Filed In:. London Travel. Dating back to AD200, this is a Roman fort and the city wall of London. This is on Noble Street. ... http://golondon.about.com/od/londonpictu... - Cached In real terms, London's oldest streets are the Roman roads of London. Oxford Street and the Old Kent Road, are both roads/streets, built 2,000 years ago. Ancient Roman Road Map Unveiled Nov 26, 2007 ... Ancient Roman Road Map Unveiled. in: Historical Perspectives ... practical document, more like a plan of the London Underground than a map. ... http://www.impactlab.com/2007/11/27/anci... - Cached Archaeology News: Ancient Roman road map unveiled Nov 28, 2007 ... Ancient Roman road map unveiled ... says it is an intensely practical document, more like a plan of the London Underground than a map. ... http://archaeology-in-news.blogspot.com/... Department for Culture Media and Sport - Culture minister ... ... Queen Victoria Street in the City of London is to be listed at Grade II. ... announces plans to list 3rd century ad roman temple of mithras in london ... http://www.culture.gov.uk/Reference_libr... - Cached BBC - h2g2 - The Great Fire of London, UK Six 'commissioners for the rebuilding of the City of London' were ... The original Roman street plan, with its overlaid medieval influences, still survives. ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3851129 Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: One of London's oldest streets could be this one : - City of London: Roman Fort and City Wall Filed In:. London Travel. Dating back to AD200, this is a Roman fort and the city wall of London. This is on Noble Street. ... http://golondon.about.com/od/londonpictu... - Cached In real terms, London's oldest streets are the Roman roads of London. Oxford Street and the Old Kent Road, are both roads/streets, built 2,000 years ago. Ancient Roman Road Map Unveiled Nov 26, 2007 ... Ancient Roman Road Map Unveiled. in: Historical Perspectives ... practical document, more like a plan of the London Underground than a map. ... http://www.impactlab.com/2007/11/27/anci... - Cached Archaeology News: Ancient Roman road map unveiled Nov 28, 2007 ... Ancient Roman road map unveiled ... says it is an intensely practical document, more like a plan of the London Underground than a map. ... http://archaeology-in-news.blogspot.com/... Department for Culture Media and Sport - Culture minister ... ... Queen Victoria Street in the City of London is to be listed at Grade II. ... announces plans to list 3rd century ad roman temple of mithras in london ... http://www.culture.gov.uk/Reference_libr... - Cached BBC - h2g2 - The Great Fire of London, UK Six 'commissioners for the rebuilding of the City of London' were ... The original Roman street plan, with its overlaid medieval influences, still survives. ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3851129 watling street fleet street and baker street the first one is right, it is the Wathling street. that street dates back in 1212. I would say either baker or 10 downing street Watling Street is correct, but it actually dates back to Roman London, likely 1st Century AD. Neither Baker Street or Downing Street is in historic London at all - for more than a thousand years of London's history, the ground where they now are was open country miles outside the City walls! Downing Street was first built up in the 1680s; Baker Street not till the 19th century. NB that some of London's streets are built along very old roads. For example, Oxford Street is part of a Roman road, the Via Trinobantina, leading westwards to Colchester and Hampshire - but it wasn't built up until the 18th century as London expanded outside its historic limits. I have been searching the Time Team archives for their archaeology dig of the earliest street and have failed. Sorry, maybe you can find it. London was not a town until the Romans arrived, there was a collection of farmsteads, the nearest town was Colchester. Following the Boudiccan revolt the Romans built a stone bridge not far from the site of London Bridge, Boudicca's revolt burnt the earlier town but the Romans must have had an earlier way of crossing the river, the actual crossing may have been ferry rather than bridge but a campaigning army requires heavy bulky equipment that must have called for a road to the Thames. Time Team did dig a bridge or jetty in Vauxhall that had two Bronze Age arrow heads connected with it that would be 1000 BC, must have had a path/street attached to it. http://www.channel4.com/history/microsit... yes it is watling street and grove street Recent digs in Guidhall Yard have confirmed that Lonon was a thriving port in Saxon days. The first bridging of the Thames came in about AD 43. But the Thames was uncontained at that point and the bridge was more of a series of stagings across marshy land, the port itself being south of this point. A serious dockside fire in AD 120 caused a rebuilding of the port. Following this the first deep water (relative to the time) port was created. So look Thames Side for your answer. |