The London Gate

The London Gate. Verulamium Park. , All roads lead to... , Verulamium had four impressive gates at the points where major roads reached the town. The imposing London Gate sat astride Wating Street on its route from Dover to Chester via London. Other gates spanned roads which linked the town to Colchester (to the east) and Silchester (to the south-west), making Verulamium very well connected to the rest of Roman Britain., Built to impress , While the gates and wall would have provided security, the town seems to have lacked the military forces that would have been needed to man them. It is likely they were built more as an expression of civic pride and to control the flow of goods and people into the town, possibly for the purposes of taxation., Look out for... , The footprint in front of you clearly shows the four routes of passage through London Gate. The middle two would have been for animal-drawn carts and the outer two for the use of pedestrians. The remains of the gate and the town walls are in English Heritage's guardianship.