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Fosse Way

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Fosse Way

Roman military road in England, from Lincoln in the north to Exeter, Devon, on the south coast. It intersected the Roman Watling Street at a point known as the ‘centre of England’, and effectively divided the ‘barbarian’ north and west from the southeast.

The Fosse Way continued in use until modern times and was one of the four ‘royal roads’ of 11th-century Britain. It was named after the foss, or ditch, constructed on either side to keep the road well drained.



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He told all from the very first: how Robin Hood had slain the forester, and how he had hidden in the greenwood to escape the law; how that he lived therein, all against the law, God wot, slaying His Majesty's deer and levying toll on fat abbot, knight, and esquire, so that none dare travel even on broad Watling Street or the Fosse Way for fear
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