Here at Little Aston, you are at the northern end of a private residential estate, Little Aston Park, through which the roman road, Icknield Street runs.
To the north Forge Lane follows its route, and to the south it runs through Sutton Park.
Claudius, the Emperor of Rome, ordered his army to invade Britain in the year AD43. Four years later, most of England was pacified, and the network of Roman roads was in place, built for military and official use.
Forts were built along the roads, one at Metchley near Edgbaston and one at Wall, and a well-preserved part of Icknield Street between these two forts can still be seen in Sutton Park.
Icknield Street also known as Ryknild Street runs from the Fosse Way at Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire to Templeborough in South Yorkshire, a distance of 112 miles (180.2 km).