Mareham Lane is an unclassified road between Graby and

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. It is approximately long.

The Roman Road

For most of its length Mareham Lane follows the route of a minor

Roman road Roman roads ( la, viae Romanae ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman R ...

, and the name is also used for that Roman road from Bourne to the original ford at SleafordRR260: and perhaps on to Lincoln ( Lindum Colonia).

Margary numbers

Ivan Margary allocated the following

Margary numbers Margary numbers are the numbering scheme developed by the historian Ivan Margary to catalogue known and suspected Roman roads in Britain in his 1955 work ''The Roman Roads of Britain''. They remain the standard system used by archaeologists and ...

in his classification scheme: *RR260 Bourne-Sleaford *RR262 Sleaford-Bracebridge Heath

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The Roman Road

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