Watling Street

City. (EC4) Is considered to have been the principal street of Roman London, and "one of four grand Roman ways in Britain," as well as a British road before the arrival of the Romans. (Reference: Timbs's Curiosities of London, p. 816) Is part of the ancient Roman way that traversed England from Dover to Cardigan. The name has been derived from Adeling, a nobleman, from Watheling and Watling. (Reference: Smith's Streets of London, p. 376)

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