On Dec 3, 9:19*am, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Brian Watson wrote:
"Tom Anderson" wrote in message
th.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:


Has anyone actually looked at the links i posted? Specifically, the second
one?

tom

Well I have for one and it's a complete work of fiction. I'm surprised
no one else has commented already. The straight roman road that it
shows crossing the Thames and heading into Victoria simply doesn't
exist. Try looking at Multimap or any other 'proper' map.
Openstreetmap can be amended by anyone, a bit like Wikipedia, and
someone (you perhaps?) has drawn your roman road on it, albeit it's
been quite neatly done. Strutton Ground does exist but not where it is
shown and is an interesting little street market right in the heart of
London (and I agree with Colin that the baguettes are pretty good!).

Peter