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WATLING STREET

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 412 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WATLING See also:

STREET , the See also:Early See also:English name for the See also:great road made by the See also:Romans from See also:London past St Albans (See also:Roman See also:Verulamium) to Wroxeter (Roman Viroconium) near See also:Shrewsbury and used by the Anglo-See also:Saxons, just as a great See also:part of it is used to-See also:day. According to early documents the name was at first Waeclinga (or Wartlinga) strict; its derivation is unknown, but an English See also:personal name may See also:lie behind it. After the See also:Conquest the road was included in the See also:list of four Royal Roads which the See also:Norman lawyers recorded or invented (see See also:ERMINE STREET). Later still, in the Elizabethan See also:period and after it, the name Watling Street seems to have been applied by antiquaries to many Roman or reputed Roman roads in various parts of See also:Britain, and English See also:map-makers and inferior writers on Roman roads still perpetuate the See also:fictions. In particular, the Roman " See also:North Road " which ran from See also:York through See also:Corbridge and over Cheviot to Newstead near See also:Melrose, and thence to the See also:Wall of See also:Pius, and which has largely been in use ever since Roman times, is now not unfrequently called Watling Street, though there is no old authority for it and throughout the See also:middle ages the See also:section of the road between the See also:Tyne and the Forth was called Dere Street. (F. J.

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