{"id":18229,"date":"2025-09-16T22:18:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T21:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18229"},"modified":"2025-09-19T21:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T20:46:52","slug":"a-better-attempt-at-mapping-the-line-of-the-roman-road-through-stoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/09\/16\/a-better-attempt-at-mapping-the-line-of-the-roman-road-through-stoke\/","title":{"rendered":"A better attempt at mapping the line of the Roman Road through Stoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having obtained the various OS map coordinates from the <em>North Staffordshire Journal of Field Studies<\/em> (1967), I can now plot more precisely the line(s) of the ancient Roman Road that ran from Chesterton &#8211; Stoke &#8211; Longton. The map used is public-domain OS and pre mass-housebuilding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/roman-road-chesterton-stoke-longton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/roman-road-chesterton-stoke-longton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"477\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldroman-road-into-northstaffs-lowres.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldroman-road-into-northstaffs-lowres-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldroman-road-into-northstaffs-lowres-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldroman-road-into-northstaffs-lowres-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldroman-road-into-northstaffs-lowres-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldroman-road-into-northstaffs-lowres.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Updated: fixed dumb WordPress blogging software, which had scaled down the large image automatically. Now links to the full large version!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having obtained the various OS map coordinates from the North Staffordshire Journal of Field Studies (1967), I can now plot more precisely the line(s) of the ancient Roman Road that ran from Chesterton &#8211; Stoke &#8211; Longton. The map used is public-domain OS and pre mass-housebuilding. Updated: fixed dumb WordPress blogging software, which had scaled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18229"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18253,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18229\/revisions\/18253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}