Boudica's Way 61km / 38 miles part of the Walking on the Web guide to walking in England

Start Norwich Railway Station TG230080 Finish Diss TM128797

Map Ordnance Survey Explorer 230 and 237

Along the A147 heading south from Norwich Railway Station . Take the minor road straight on at the traffic island into Trowse Newton. Follow the road around to the right and head back out over the A146 by way of a bridge, past a sub station and right into a field with a henge.

Venta Icenorum Roman Town

Upper Stoke

Shotesham

Saxlingham Green

Tasburgh

Tyrrel's Wood

.....Diss

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One of two British women to be mentioned by the ancient sources. She was the wife of King Prasutagus who was granted the kingship of the Iceni, along with clientship of Rome after the Icenian war of AD47. Following her husbands death c.AD60 her kingdom was pillaged by the imperial procurator Decianus Catus, and when she made complaint, she was personally flogged and her daughters raped. Indignant at her treatment she fomented a rebellion within her tribe and, joined by their neighbouring tribe the Trinovantes, plundered the Romano-British towns of Camulodunum, Verulamium and Londinium before being beaten in a pitched battle with the forces of the governor, Suetonius Paullinus, near Manduessedum in the midlands.

Venta Icenorum was the Civitas Capital of the powerful and independent Iceni tribe, who inhabited the flatlands and marshes of Norfolk and earned immortality for their revolt against Roman rule under their queen Boudica (or Boadicea) in the winter of AD61

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