Margary's Roman road route 130 (TQ 93 NE 66), between Ashford and Canterbury, may follow a different route from that recorded in the NMR. From Godmersham it follows an 'as the crow flies' route over hills to Thanington.

This alternative route is based on OS drawings of 1797. These maps show main roads pre-dating the modern A28. From Wye the possible route runs along roads to Godmersham. From Godmersham it follows what are now trackways, footpaths or hedgerows, though many of these are shown as roads on the late 18th century mapping. At Juliberrie's Grave the route turns east.

Between TR 08138 53289 and TR 08633 53663 there are cropmarks visible on Google Earth images of 2007 of a probable trackway with flanking parallel ditches. This could be the Roman road or a later deviation but it is felt that the route probably ran across this area, as opposed to over the hill on which Denge Wood stands (the NMR route).

From Pickelden Farm House the route could have followed what is now a footpath to Shalmsford Street. From there it could have gone past Chartham, to Horton, to Milton Manor Farm and then on into Thanington. The later parts of this route are shown as a route on the late 18th century mapping and avoid the higher land along this route, staying on the c.25m contour on the east bank above the Great Stour.

Another possibility is that it went to Mystole and then followed Cockering Road, as the NMR route largely does. The Ordnance Survey linear file held by the NMR records a section of surviving agger in Larkey Valley Wood, between c.TR 12385 55666 and c.TR 12620 55844. This is on the same alignment as the Wincheap Gate at Canterbury. If this is part of the Roman road it may be that the route moved onto this alignment somewhere between Milton Manor Farm and Stile Farm.