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Watling Street
Watling Street A north-westerly Roman road of Britain that ran from Dubris (Dover), via Londinium (London) and Verulamium (St Albans), to Deva (Chester). Much of it was built
c.60–70 AD for the advance north of the
FOSSE WAY. Its name derives from the Anglo-Saxon name for Verulamium (‘Waeclingacaester’).
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Obituary: Jack Watling
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/24/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...entitled Brewster's Millions, Watling starred as Michael Brewster...million. Such roles never put Watling at the forefront of British...drama The Courtneys of Curzon Street (1947), Alfred Hitchock...1959). On television, Watling had already appeared in The...
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Taking a ride on Watling Street: Celtic traders trudged it and Roman soldiers marched along it, but when two middle-aged would-be adventurers set out in an old Land Rover to trace Watling Street's route, their first move was stopping, for lunch.
Magazine article from: British Heritage; 7/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...today's Wroxeter Roman City. That was Watling Street. The Richborough discovery made me curious to trace Watling Street, the Roman road that led northwest...Plan to take two days to travel along Watling Street. Leave the south coast and stay...
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 "The Journal (Newcastle, England)")
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Inspector is urged to save woodland; Watling Woods 'is part of the community'.
Newspaper article from: The Journal (Newcastle, England); 9/4/2009; 700+ words
; ...officers advised him that the land at Watling Woods - the size of two football...Grandmother Ann Foreman, of Watling Street, Leadgate, who gathered a 1...begging to be used by people. "But Watling Woods is used by the community...
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 "Birmingham Mail (England)")
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Speeding hot spots targeted; WATLING STREET.(News)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England); 10/4/2007; 403 words
; ...high profile police operation. Officers from the Watling Street Neighbourhood Policing Unit identified hot spot areas...the dangers of excess speed. Sgt Paul Cooke, of Watling Street Neighbourhood Policing Unit, said: "This operation...
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From Watling Street to Ermine Way.(Roman Roads in Britain)(Book review)
Magazine article from: British Heritage; 7/1/2009; 577 words
; ...legacy of Romano-Britain that can still be seen, and driven on, today. So, take your own ride up Watling Street, or follow Ermine Street from London to York, or the Foss Way that links Exeter to Lincoln and passes through Bath, Circencester...
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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Safety work at Watling junction.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 7/28/1999; 297 words
; ...improvements are on the way at an accident black spot near Hinckley. The Highways Agency starts work from Monday on the A5 Watling Street at Smockington, at the B578 Lutterworth Road junction. The project will take six weeks and includes widening the...
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Joint push for Watling Street upgrade.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 10/5/1999; 425 words
; COUNTY transport chiefs, who are calling for more improvements to the A5 Watling Street near Nuneaton, are gathering statistics to help their cause. Cllr June Tandy, chairman of Warwickshire County Council's A5...
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Speed traps installed at Watling Street junction.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England); 11/20/2002; 413 words
; ...installed in a bid to cut speed and reduce accidents at a Nuneaton black spot. They have been positioned on the busy A5 Watling Street, near the Royal Red Gate Inn, on the junction with the A444 - the first time that Warwickshire's Casualty Reduction...
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CheapAsChips; MILE OAK FISH BAR, WATLING ST, MILE OAK, TAMWORTH.(News)
Newspaper article from: Birmingham Mail (England); 11/5/2009; 364 words
; ...out to Tamworth via the "back way" from Sutton Coldfield, look out for this shop near to the traffic lights on Watling Street. We pulled in for a quick top-up seconds before closing time at lunch. Having weighed in at 225g on my in-car...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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PASTIMES: Take a Hints through Watling Street.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 1/1/2005; 700+ words
; Byline: RICHARD SHUREY We all know the health benefits of walking but it is often difficult to rouse oneself from the comforts of a fireside armchair. Certainly a ramble can be sometimes hard going - I have recently been walking over ploughed field after ploughed field in the Feldon region of
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Watling Street
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Watling Street , important ancient road in England, built by the Romans in the course...modern thoroughfares. Some other Roman roads in England are also called Watling Street, notably the extension which led from London to Dover.
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Puritan, The, or The Widow of Watling-Street
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Puritan, The, or The Widow of Watling-Street, published 1607, a farcical comedy of London manners, as ‘written by W. S.’ and included in the 3rd and 4th Shakespeare folios, but by some other hand, almost certainly Middleton's .
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Leicestershire
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
...western boundary with Warwickshire ran along the line of Watling Street , the north‐west between Derbyshire and...far from the intersection of two great Roman roads, Watling Street and the Fosse Way . It became an important town of...
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Staffordshire
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
...region was part of the territory of the Cornovii . Watling Street crossed the southern part of the county, intersecting...of 878, the Danes took the lands east and north of Watling Street, most of Staffordshire was in their hands, though...
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Fosse Way
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Fosse Way , Roman road in England. It apparently ran from Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) NE past Bath (Aquae Sulis), Cirencester (Corinium Dobunnorum), and Leicester (Ratae Coritanorum) to Lincoln (Lindum). It intersected Watling Street.
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