page_title: Dere Street
section_title: "Watling Street"
hierarchical_section_title: Dere Street / Name / "Watling Street"
caption_attribution_description: Roman Britain, Military Organisation in the north (84)
context_page_description: Dere Street or Deere Street is a modern designation of a Roman road which ran north from Eboracum, crossing the Stanegate at Corbridge and continuing beyond into what is now Scotland, later at least as far as the Antonine Wall. Portions of its route are still followed by modern roads, including the A1, the B6275 road through Piercebridge, where Dere Street crosses the River Tees, and the A68 north of Corbridge in Northumberland.
context_section_description: The Roman equivalent of Watling Street, the Antonine Itinerary's 2nd British route, shared Dere Street's trunk road between Eboracum and Cataractonium (Catterick) before branching off to the northwest to communicate with Luguvalium (Carlisle). Owing to this, some stretches or the entirety of Dere Street is sometimes referenced as "Watling Street", a name that appears on the 1885-1900 edition of the Ordnance Survey map for the village of Oxnam. A small section of the old A68 route north in Corbridge is called Watling Street. It should not, however, be confused with the traditional route between Canterbury and Wroxeter in the south nor with the Carlisle route to its west.
caption: A map of the Roman north c. 84, including Dere Street between Eboracum and Veluniate near Camelon
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