The research reported in this monograph follows on directly from the findings that were reported in BAR 492, in which, among many other discoveries, the author recognised that the courses of both Roman Dere Street and Hadrian's Wall had been underpinned by frameworks of long-distance alignments. Stimulated by the detection of several more of these alignments across northern England by another researcher, Robert Entwistle, the author, who is a chartered engineer as well as an archaeologist, seeks to examine why, how, and when such long-distance alignments may have been laid out. Consideration is then given to the processes by which some of these alignments seem subsequently to have been adopted to help set out the courses of Roman roads. These processes are shown, at times, to have been far from straightforward, and this appears to offer an explanation for many of the minor divergences that Roman roads, as built, take from such alignments in practice. The courses of four well-known Roman roads in Northern England are then examined in detail to diagnose the processes by which they are likely to have been planned and laid out. These roads are the Western Main Road from Manchester northwards through the Lune Gorge, the Maiden Way, the network of cross-country roads from Kirkham to Aldborough, and the Devil's Causeway.

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How did the Romans plan their great road to the north, Dere Street? In setting out to answer this question, and to produce a method for diagnosing the direction of Roman surveying and planning from the landscape and structural remains, John Poulter's research eventually widened to ask the same question of Hadrian's Wall, its vallum and the Antonine Wall too. His analysis determines the probable directions in which the three structures were surveyed, and in so doing provides fascinating insight into their possible function - Hadrian's Wall, for example seem to have been set out with a view to maintaining a good view to the south, making signalling to the rear more of a priority in planning than observing to the north.