CELTIC AND ROMANO- BRITISH HERTFORDSHIRE 



which is for about 2 miles the county boundary. It passes out of the 

 county from the parish of Hinxworth. 



Ermine Street, which was known by this name or Arning Street in 

 the 14th and 15th centuries/ comes out of London in a direction almost 

 due north. It enters Hertfordshire in the parish of Waltham Cross and 

 forms the western boundary of Theobalds Park, A little to the north of 

 Bull Cross Farm it is lost in the grounds of Theobalds Park, but is found 

 again at the north-west of the park and approximately follows the line of 

 Burygreen Road to Cheshunt cemetery. It then follows the line of Dark 

 Lane to GofFs Lane, on the opposite side of which it is lost for a short 

 distance in the grounds of Cheshunt Great House ; it then follows the 

 western boundary of those grounds to Andrews Lane, on the opposite side 

 of which it follows Stockwell Lane till the lane reaches the brook here. 

 From this point through Cheshunt Park northward through Wormley 

 parish the line of the road is lost and is not found again till the east end of 

 Coldhall Green in the parish of Broxbourne is reached. Here it follows 

 the line of the lane through the grounds of Broxbourne Bury till that lane 

 diverges to the north-west. It can then be traced through the woods to 

 Martins Green, and so northward through Hoddesdon Park Wood by the 

 road called Red Hills, and so northward past Box Wood where under the 

 name of Elbow Lane it forms the parish boundary between St. John's, 

 Hertford and Hoddesdon and Great Amwell. For a short distance it is 

 lost as a road, but its line is carried on by a field boundary. At Hertford 

 Heath it is joined by the road from Hoddesdon and for a little more than 

 a quarter of a mile becomes the main road from Hoddesdon to Hertford. 

 At Little Amwell it again becomes a lane, although still continuing for a 

 little distance as the parish boundary. On reaching the road from Hertford to 

 Stanstead St. Margarets the line is lost, but it followed the boundary on the 

 east of Barrow Field, where it was found in excavating upon the golf links 

 at Chad well* in 1902. Northward it followed the line of a piece of the 

 parish boundary between Ware and St. John's, Hertford. It probably 

 crossed the Lea a little to the east of the Lock House, where on the north 

 side of the river there was a Roman settlement. Its course is not traceable 

 till it becomes the main road northward to Buntingford where the parish 

 boundary between Ware and Thundridge crosses that road. It then 

 changes its course to a north-easterly direction and follows the existing road 

 to Wadesmill village, thence with a slight deflection eastward through 

 Standon parish to the east side of the grounds of St. Edmund's College, 

 where it again deflects slightly more to the eastward and so on to 

 Puckeridge. At the north end of Puckeridge it probably crossed 

 Stane Street, and near here was a Roman station (see Braughing, p. 140). 

 The existing road loses its straightness for about a mile and a half, and on 

 passing through the village takes a northerly direction, inclining eastward 

 to a point where it crosses the River Rib, there it again becomes straight 

 and goes in a north-easterly direction to Buntingford. For the greater part 

 of the distance from Puckeridge to Buntingford it forms parish boundaries. 

 It forms the Market Hill and High Street of Buntingford and so on m a 



3 Cott. MS. Nero E vi, fol. 122^ ; Anct. D. (P.R.O.), A. 5208. 

 ^ Herts. Mercury, 5 April 1902. 



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