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FOSSE (or Foss) WAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 731 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FOSSE (or See also:Foss) WAY , the See also:Early See also:English name of a See also:Roman road or See also:series of roads in See also:Britain, used later by the English, See also:running from See also:Lincoln by See also:Leicester and See also:Bath to See also:Exeter. Almost all the Roman See also:line is still in use as See also:modern road or See also:lane. It passes from Lincoln through See also:Newark and Leicester (the Roman Ratae) to High See also:Cross ( Venonae), where it intersects Watling See also:Street at a point often called " the centre of See also:England." Hence it runs to Moreton-in-the-See also:Marsh, See also:Cirencester, Bath and See also:Ilchester, crosses the hills near See also:Chard, See also:Axminster and See also:Honiton, and enters Exeter. Antiquaries have taken it farther, usually to See also:Totnes, but without See also:warrant. (See further under See also:ERMINE STREET.) (F. J.

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