"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
h.li...
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:
And winds up, er:

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
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Strutton Ground Market,very nice ethnic mix of Patricians,Plebians & Slaves
& the best Garum this side of Gaul."Laboremus pro patria"

In article ,
(RobWilton) wrote:

"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
h.li...
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:
And winds up, er:

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.

It also has a shop selling rather good baguettes, two of which I had for
my lunch yesterday and today! It isn't on that alignment, though.

--
Colin Rosenstiel