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Encyclopedia: Watling Street

Watling Street is the name given to an ancient trackway in England and Wales that was first used by the Celts mainly between the modern cities of Canterbury and St Albans. The Romans later paved the route, part of which is identified on the Antonine Itinerary as Iter III: "Item a Londinio ad portum Dubris" - from London to the port of Dover. The name derives from the Anglo-Saxon Wæcelinga Stræt, which has come to be understood as the A2 road from Dover to London, and then the A5 road from London to Wroxeter.

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Burnt Oak

An area of North London, Edgware area. Watling Street passes through Burnt Oak. Burnt Oak tube station is a station on the Northern Line of London Underground...

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Aldford

Aldford is a village in the county of Cheshire, south of Chester. It was constructed as a designed village in the middle of the 19th century by Sir Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, in almost rectangular form. Eaton Hall and the Roman road Watling Street are outside the village...

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Brownhills

Brownhills is a town in the West Midlands of England. It lies on the ancient Watling Street, but did not exist until the eighteenth century. It quickly grew around the coal mining industry, and became a centre of the canal and railway networks. See also : Aldridge...

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Burnt Oak tube station

1927 as Burnt Oak (Watling) , the latter being dropped about 1950. It is on the Roman Road known as Watling Street...

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Cobham, Kent

Cobham is a small village with a reputation for being still relatively unspoilt even today. It is located just off Watling Street, the old road from Dover to London. Cobham lies between Gravesend and Rochester and has links to Charles Dickens, Sir Joseph Williamson, and the insane artist Richard...

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Old Kent Road

forms part of Watling Street, the Roman road which ran from Dover to Holyhead. Chaucer's pilgrims would probably have travelled along Watling Street on their way to Canterbury... Street, to New Cross. It forms the boundary between Walworth and Peckham to the south and Bermondsey to...

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Manduessedum

Manduessedum was a Roman fort settlement in modern day Warwickshire in England. The fort was founded in around c AD 50-AD 60 on the Watling Street Roman road. The final battle between the rebel queen of the Britons Boudicca may have taken place near Manduessedum. The British forces were defeated...

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Caldecote, Milton Keynes

strangers on the road. In this case the road in question is the ancient Watling Street that passes...

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Tattenhoe

Tattenhoe is an area of Milton Keynes, in the County of Milton Keynes, England. It is located to the south of the main town near the Roman road Watling Street. The village (which formed part of Buckinghamshire until it was included in the Milton Keynes development) consisted of just three farms...

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Treaty of Wedmore

which they had occupied and to withdraw to a line north and east of Watling Street, the old Roman road...

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