WATLING STREET

wŏtˈlĭng, important ancient road in England, built by the Romans in the course of their military occupation. It ran from London generally north to the intersection with the Fosse Way, c.13 mi (21 km) SW of Leicester, and thence in a westerly direction to Wroxeter in Salop, SE of Shrewsbury, a distance of more than 100 mi (161 km). The principal town through which it passed was Saint Albans (ancient Verulamium). Its later importance arose from its use as a thoroughfare throughout the Middle Ages and into modern times. In places the ancient Roman road is still in daily use, and in others it has been used as a base for 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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An Historical Geography of England before A.D. 1800: Fourteen Studies
Book by H. C. Darby; 1951
Subjects: Great Britain--Historical Geography, Great Britain--History
...therefore suggested that the Watling Street may have acted as the boundary...by the construction of the Watling Street and Akeman Street. The town plan...dependent on the line of the Watling Street which ran through the town. Belgic...
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The Conquest of England
Book by John Richard Green, Alice Stopford Green; Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1884
Subjects: Great Britain--History--Anglo Saxon Period, 449-1066
...Eadwards Conquest of Southern Essex 189 AEthelflaed Seizes the Line of the Watling Street 190 The Watling Street 190 , 191 913. AEthelflaeds Advance on the Upper Trent 192 AEthelflaed Secures...
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The Romans in Britain
Book by Bertram C. A. Windle; Methuen, 1923
Subjects: Great Britain--Antiquities, Roman
...PORTS THE ROADS TO LONDON THE WATLING STREET LONDON 82 vii. THE WATLING STREET continued VERULAMIUM DEVA...19. MAP OF WATLING STREET 83...
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Roman London
Book by Dominic Perring; Seaby, 1991
Subjects: England--Antiquities, Roman, Excavations (Archaeology)--England--London, London (England)--Antiquities, Roman, Romans--England--London
...been at Westminster not London. Watling Street, the Roman road from Kent to Verulamium...The deviations in the line of Watling Street may, however, have been due to...projections of the known stretches of Watling Street do not actually meet at the Westminster...
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The Foundations of England or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55-A.D. 1154)
Book by James H. Ramsay; Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1898
Subjects: Great Britain--History--To 1485
...54 50 Ostorius Scapula; the Nen-Severn Line -- The Watling Street; the Brigantes 55 The Silures; the Ordovices 56...
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Architecture as Crime Control
Journal article by Neal Kumar Katyal; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 111, 2002
Subjects: Architectural design--Social aspects, Crime prevention--Management
...whether changes to the architecture of our streets and buildings can reduce criminal activity...the government builds housing, designs streets, and maintains parks, attention to architecture...Jacobs, who reasoned that "eyes on the street" would deter crime. Jacobss goal was to...
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Blake's London: Times & Spaces
Journal article by Paul Miner; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Authors, English--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Blake, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Setting (Literature)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...to Blake. The earlier 18th-century observer, entering London from the north, along Edgeware Road (part of ancient Watling Street, associated with the Milky Way) saw and smelled the gallows fruit of the Fatal Tree--ripening corpses (hanging in...
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The Politics of Gender, Puritanism, and Shakespeare's Third Folio
Journal article by Richard Finkelstein; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 79, 2000
Subjects: Dramatists--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Family--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Marriage--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Puritans in literature--Analysis, Religion--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Sex role--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Shakespeare, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...The London Prodigal (1605), Thomas, Lord Cromwell (1602), 1 Sir John Oldcastle (1600), The Puritan or The Widow of Watling Street (1607), A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608), and Locrine (1595) remain spurious, even outrageous, attributions. (4) Some of...
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The End(s) of Discord in 'The Shoemaker's Holiday
Journal article by Marta Straznicky; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 36, 1996
Subjects: Dekker, Thomas--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English drama--Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600, Folk festivals--Portrayals, depictions, etc., The Shomaker's Holiday (Theater)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Theater in propaganda--Analysis, Theater--Political aspects
...vi.61), it is clear that "fair revenues" are Hammons major recommendation (xi.34). We also learn that he lives in Watling Street, an area of London noted by Stow for its concentration of wealthy drapers.(27) And Hammons spirits are buoyed throughout...
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"I WANT a Hero": Advertising for an Epic Hero in Don Juan
Journal article by Hadley J. Mozer; Studies in Romanticism, Vol. 44, 2005
Subjects: Advertising--History, Advertising--Usage, Byron, George Gordon, Lord--Advertising, Byron, George Gordon, Lord--Works, Don Juan (Poem)
...of St. Jamess, Clerkenwell, and St. Antholins, Watling-street, WANTS A PLACE. He has written Prayers for Families...immediately applying at the Coach and Horses, King Street, Westminster, where they will be received and paid the...
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Pilgrim's Progress
Magazine article by William Cook; New Statesman, Vol. 131, April 1, 2002
Subjects: Anniversaries--Rites and ceremonies, Chaucer, Geoffrey--Homes and haunts, Churches--Rites and ceremonies, London, England--Churches, mosques, synagogues, etc., The Canterbury Tales (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Roman road that Chaucer called Watling Street, and we call the A2. It is the...the inner-city stretch of Swifts Watling Street, a bleak urban thoroughfare pitted...robbers on his way to Jerusalem. Watling Street was plagued by bandits, and pilgrims...
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At Home and Away: The Earl of Leicester
Magazine article by Simon Adams; History Today, Vol. 46, May 1996
Subjects: Elizabeth I, Queen of England--Influence, Robert, Earl of Leicester--Biography, United Kingdom--History, 1558-1603 (Elizabethan era)
...lease-holder, Easton Neston, Leckchampstead, and then down Watling Street to Dunstable, St Albans and Northaw again, which he...at the house known as Christchurch, off Leadenhall Street, which belonged to his sister-in-law Margaret Audley...
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Roman Roads
Magazine article by Logan Thompson; History Today, Vol. 47, February 1997
Subjects: Roads, Roman--Design and construction, Rome (Ancient)--Transportation
...in Britain. Keith Branigan explains; the routes were Watling Street from Richborough via Canterbury, London, St Albans, Dunstable, Towcester to Wroxeter; Ermine Street from York and thereafter Scotland. From London to the...
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The Man Who Wasn't There
Magazine article by Daniel Swift; The Nation, Vol. 280, March 21, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Tamburlaine Must Die (Book)--Book reviews, The World of Christopher Marlowe (Book)--Book reviews
...take up his university scholarship. "If he followed the usual route from Canterbury to Cambridge, Marlowe went up Watling Street past Faversham to the cathedral city of Rochester. He would have found rides with agricultural or trade vehicles...
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Place & Past in Medieval England: Nicholas Orme Asks What Sense Medieval English People Had of the Land They Lived in, and What Ancient Sites and Natural Wonders Did They Visit
Magazine article by Nicholas Orme; History Today, Vol. 58, July 2008
Subjects: England--History, Historic sites--Appreciation, Middle Ages--History
...stone ... where they of the town say that many Danes be buried. Some old people constantly affirm that the ridge of Watling Street went through the park of Pontefract. I heard say that Richard III lay sometime at Picketing Castle and sometime at...
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newspaper articles on: Watling Street  - 179 results

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PASTIMES: Take a Hints through Watling Street
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 1, 2005
PASTIMES: Take a Hints through Watling Street. Byline: RICHARD SHUREY We all know the health benefits of walking but it is often difficult to rouse oneself from the...
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PUB GRUB: A Hearty Meal in a Busy Pub; the Crown, Watling Street, Brownhills, Walsall
Newspaper article; Birmingham Evening Mail (England), August 7, 2004
PUB GRUB: A Hearty Meal in a Busy Pub; the Crown, Watling Street, Brownhills, Walsall. Byline: WAYNE STACKHOUSE DURING a Sunday I paid a visit with members of the family to The Crown...
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A Time Lord in the Cavern; Dr Who Number Six Lands the Tardis in Mathew Street
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), May 1, 2006
...heroes and heroines. Deborah Watling, the female sidekick of the...demon baker of Coronation Street and Liverpool born-actor Christopher...uk Former assistant Deborah Watling takes a chance for a stroll down Mathew Street Former Dr Who Colin Baker...
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From Hill Street to the Omani Desert
Newspaper article; Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), April 5, 2008
From Hill Street to the Omani Desert...German) and Mrs Kate Watling (art). I can remember...respectively, Mrs Dirckx and Mrs Watling. It was a very pleasant...time we had left Kildare Street and moved to a mediaeval...friend from the Hill Street days, Eric Dowson, who...
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Downstairs, Upstairs; BEDROOMS ON THE GROUND FLOOR ... KITCHEN IN THE ROOF SPACE in Coronation Street Land, a New Storey Line They All Want a Part In
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 8, 2006
...a further pounds sterling5,000 for a parking space on their street - or pounds sterling10,000 for a more secure space beneath...lose their place in the queue if they left the site. Hannah Watling, a 22-year- old shopworker, said she had cancelled an operation...
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encyclopedia articles on: Watling Street  - 13 results

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Watling Street
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WATLING STREET wot ling, important ancient road in England, built by the Romans in...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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Fosse Way
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Aquae Sulis), Cirencester (Corinium Dobunnorum), and Leicester (Ratae Coritanorum) to Lincoln (Lindum). It intersected Watling Street. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University...
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Sittingbourne
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SITTINGBOURNE sit ingborn, town (1991 pop. 35,893), Kent, SE England, on the ancient Watling Street and on the old route of pilgrimage to Canterbury. It is an agricultural market with paper, paint, and cement works. It includes...
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Dunstable
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...pop. 30,912), Central Bedfordshire, SE England. Located at the meeting point of the ancient Icknield Street and Watling Street , Dunstable is a developing residential and industrial district, with printing and cement plants and extensive automobile...
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Edmund
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...face an invasion of Irish vikings led by Olaf Guthfrithson . He was forced to cede to them the territory between Watling Street and the Northumbrian border (already occupied partly by Danes), and he succeeded in recapturing it in 944 only because...
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