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Batham Gate is the medieval name for a 
A section of Batham Gate Road east of 
A Roman milestone was discovered in 1862 in the Silverlands district of Buxton. It is the oldest inscribed milestone found in Derbyshire. The inscription is ‘TRIB POT COS II P P A NAVIONE M P XI’ which means ‘With the
About Batham GateOrdnance survey Map
showing Batham Gate near Brough
Geograph image of Batham Gate Roman road, near Peak Forest
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Batham Gate is the medieval name for a Roman road
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in Derbyshire
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, England, which ran south-west from Templebrough on the River Don in South Yorkshire
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to Brough-on-Noe
Brough and Shatton is a civil parish in Hope Valley, Derbyshire, Hope Valley in the High Peak, Derbyshire, High Peak district of Derbyshire, England. It is named for the two hamlets of Brough-on-Noe and Shatton. Brough is about 2 km, or j ...
(Latin '' Navio'') and the spa town of Buxton
Buxton is a spa town in the High Peak, Derbyshire, Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, in the East Midlands region of England. It is England's highest market town, sited at some above sea level.Alston, Cumbria also claims this, but lacks a regu ...
(Latin ''Aquae Arnemetiae
Aquae Arnemetiae was a small town in the Roman province of Roman Britain, Britannia. The settlement was based around its natural warm springs. The Roman occupation ran from around 75 AD to 410 AD. Today it is the town of Buxton, Derbyshire in E ...
'') in Derbyshire. ''Gate'' means "road" in northern English dialects; the name therefore means "road to the bath town".
The route of the road from Templebrough to the Roman signal station Navio is disputed. Hunter
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suggested the Long Causeway at Redmires as the route and it was shown as such on Ordnance Survey
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maps, but this is now known to be a medieval packhorse saltway.
Roman road historian Ivan Donald Margary said that the Long Causeway had a slightly different route in Roman times. In his book ''Roman Roads In Britain'' he said that evidence is now available that shows that after the Redmires Reservoir the Roman road did not follow the medieval route to Stanedge Pole but kept to the line of the present-day track to Stanedge Lodge. The Roman road then descended Stanage Edge half a mile north-west of the present route, on a narrow and steeper terrace. Gives details of Roman deviation. Batham Gate Road was assigned the Margary number RR710a.
Another possible route, backed by excavations carried out in 2016, suggests a route that would have taken the road close to the Roman villa
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Nevertheless, the term "Roman villa" generally covers buildings with the common ...
at Whirlow Hall Farm. An interim report by University of Sheffield
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staff on excavations of a linear feature in the Sheephill Road area of Ringinglow has suggested this as the route of the lost Roman road. The feature, which extends through Barber Fields, is 20m wide and filled to a depth of 5m with rubble and has a metalled surface.
A section of Batham Gate Road east of Peak Forest
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The village grew from the earlier settlement of ...
is a protected Scheduled Monument
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. There are also modern roads called Batham Gate Road at Peak Dale, near Buxton, and at Bradwell, near Brough, which are remnants of the route of the original Roman road. The section crossing Bradwell Moor is now called Clement Lane.
A Roman milestone was discovered in 1862 in the Silverlands district of Buxton. It is the oldest inscribed milestone found in Derbyshire. The inscription is ‘TRIB POT COS II P P A NAVIONE M P XI’ which means ‘With the tribune
Tribune () was the title of various elected officials in ancient Rome. The two most important were the Tribune of the Plebs, tribunes of the plebs and the military tribunes. For most of Roman history, a college of ten tribunes of the plebs ac ...
's power, twice consul
Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states thro ...
, father of this country. From Navio 11 miles.' The milestone is on display in the Buxton Museum.
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About Batham Gate
showing Batham Gate near Brough
Geograph image of Batham Gate Roman road, near Peak Forest
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