Fen Causeway or the Fen Road is the modern name for a Roman road of England that runs between Denver, Norfolk in the east and Peterborough in the west. Its path covers 24 miles (39 km), passing March and Eldernell (near Whittlesey ) before joining the major Roman north–south route Ermine Street west of modern-day Peterborough . It provided a link from the north and west of England to East Anglia .
6-473: It is possible that the route continued east of Denver to meet Peddars Way at Castle Acre , but the evidence for this is less certain. The road is thought to have been raised above the marshy fens using gravel, with a width of up to 60 feet (18 m). Towards its western end it is close to the Bronze Age route across Flag Fen . At that archaeological site, which is open to visitors, a section through
12-729: The Greater Ridgeway . At Knettishall Heath the Peddars Way links with the Icknield Way Path for 110 miles south west to Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire. A detailed 144-page guide, including 1:25 000 maps from the Ordnance Survey , and described south to north, is published in the series of National Trail Guides. The trail is very well marked with two general types of waymarker along
18-681: The Norfolk-Suffolk border, about 7 km or 4 mi east of Thetford ), and it links with the Norfolk Coast Path at Holme-next-the-Sea . Combined with the Norfolk Coast Path , it forms the Peddars Way & Norfolk Coast Path National Trail, one of 15 National Trails in England and Wales , and the two paths together run for 133 miles (214 km). It is one of four long distance footpaths which, when combined, run from Lyme Regis to Hunstanton and are referred to as
24-483: The Roman Road can be seen. 52°34′N 0°4′E / 52.567°N 0.067°E / 52.567; 0.067 This England road or road transport-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Peddars Way The Peddars Way is a long distance footpath that passes through Suffolk and Norfolk , England. The Peddars Way is 46 miles (74 km) long and follows
30-409: The length of the route. At junctions there are signs marked ‘Peddars Way’ on plain wood fingerposts. Elsewhere white, yellow and green discs are used bearing the acorn sign used on such long-distance routes. The Peddars Way may be accessed by public transport . There is a path linking the southern end, at Knettishall Heath, to the nearby Harling Road railway station . Holme, at the northern end, has
36-635: The route of a Roman road . It has been suggested by more than one writer that it was not created by the Romans but was an ancient trackway, a branch or extension of the Icknield Way , used and remodelled by the Romans. The name-type, which recurs in medieval records from other parts of East Anglia, derives from Middle English pedder , meaning an itinerant trader. It is first mentioned on a map of 1587 AD . It starts at Knettishall Heath in Suffolk (near
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