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Ermine Street Saxon name for the Roman road in Britain that ran from London to Lincoln and York. It was one of the four main highways of Saxon England. The name is derived from the Earningas, a group of people who inhabited an area in Cambridgeshire through which the road passed. The road from Silchester to Gloucester was also called Ermine Street.

Bibliography: See I. D. Margary, Roman Roads in Britain (3d ed. 1973).

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Ermine Street
1. The Roman road between London and Lincoln via Huntingdon.

2. The Roman road connecting Silchester with Gloucester.

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Ermine Street was the Roman precursor of the Great North Road, running from London via Lincoln to York. The name is from the Anglo‐Saxon Earninga Stræt meaning ‘the street of the ?eagle's people’.

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