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Local Study - Part 1 Warrington became a settlement mainly because of the River Mersey and its crossing point, which was in Latchford. The Romans decided to march north from their fort up at Deva in Chester, when they came upon this ford (shallow crossing point) (see map 1), so a small settlement grew up here. The Romans called it a veratinium. When archaeologists from Victorian times dug up Warrington they found Roman pottery and glass but on our local study we found no evidence of Roman remains simply because it's either all underground or has already been dug up. The Anglo-Saxons took control of Warrington after the Romans had left, so they now controlled the rivers crossing point which had now moved down to Howley. For many centuries from then on Warrington was the scene of war and violence because of armies trying to take control of the River Mersey's crossing...

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