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Fosse Way
Roman Road
Map showing the Fosse Way
The route of the Fosse Way
Route information
Length230 mi (370 km)
Time periodRoman Britain
Margary number5
Major junctions
FromIsca Dumnoniorum
Major intersectionsLindinis, Aquae Sulis, Corinium, Venonis, Ratae Corieltauvorum
ToLindum Colonia
Location
CountryUnited Kingdom
Road network
  • Roman roads in Britannia
Roman Britain military infrastructure 68 AD

The Fosse Way was a Roman road built in Britain during the first and second centuries AD that linked Isca Dumnoniorum (Exeter) in the southwest and Lindum Colonia (Lincoln) to the northeast, via Lindinis (Ilchester), Aquae Sulis (Bath), Corinium (Cirencester), and Ratae Corieltauvorum (Leicester).

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the legionary base in southeast Wales. At Corinium, it connected to the Fosse Way between Isca (Exeter) and Lindum (Lincoln). At Calleva, it connected to...

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the A46) known as Newark Road, where the road leaves the route of the Fosse Way. At the large Thurmaston Roundabout with Barkby Thorpe Lane, there is...

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one of the Stroud Valleys in the Cotswolds, on the A46 road (the Roman Fosse Way), 4 miles (6.4 km) south of Stroud and about 25 miles (40 km) north-east...

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northeast of Ilchester to Shepton Mallet the route traces that of the Fosse Way. The road is subject to a stream of speed restrictions where it winds...

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province of Britain. By 47 AD, the Romans held the lands southeast of the Fosse Way. Control over Wales was delayed by reverses and the effects of Boudica's...

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and the River Sheppey runs through the town, as does the route of the Fosse Way, the main Roman road between north-east and south-west England. There...

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