Evening all,

While pondering the nature of southwest London, i turned to OpenStreetMap:

http://openstreetmap.org/

I noticed that the main road heading out towards Portsmouth was very
straight - a Roman road, i assumed. I hadn't realised that. I followed it,
to see how far it went. And was quite surprised by the answer. It goes by
the name of Strutton Ground, and starts here, near Parliament:

http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.497...layers=B000FTF

And winds up, er:

http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=41.180...layers=B000FTF

It does go a long way to explaining why, and indeed how, we fought the
Peninsular War, i suppose.

I understand from the Westminster council website that there's a street
market along it. That must be quite a sight.

tom

--
I could tell you a great many more particulars but suppose that you are
tired of it by this time. -- John Backhouse, Trainspotter Zero