Watling Street
Watling Street is a former Roman road in England that of Portus Dubris ( Dover ) on the southeast coast on Durovernum Cantiacorum ( Canterbury ), Londinium (London), Northampton and Birmingham to general acceptance by Viroconium (now Wroxeter in Shropshire ) led, but also Castra Devana to Chester and can be perhaps even gone to Wales.
She led on Londinium, Verulamium (St Albans ) and the Midlands and was an important part of the network that docked the Romans to develop the new Roman province of Britannia ( Britain). From the Anglo-Saxons it was called Wæcelinga Straet, literally " the road of the people of Wæcel ". It is not known who was Wæcel, but he was also Wæclingacaester ( Verulamium ) his name and it is likely that the street name initially applied only to the distance between this city and London before being applied to the entire street.
History
In the year 61 probably named after her battle on the Watling Street took place at the Watling Street, in which the Romans under the governor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus defeated the rebellious tribes of the Iceni and Trinovantes crucial under the army leader Boudicca.
The Treaty of Wedmore committed in the 8th century the defeated Danes, located north and east of Watling Street retire in the region, which then was called the Danelaw.
Like most Roman roads, the Watling Street fell north London, after the Romans had left Britain. It is likely that Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims used Watling Street to travel in his Canterbury Tales, Southwark to Canterbury.
In the early 19th century the street from Thomas Telford was restored as a toll road, so that they could be used by stagecoaches that carried the mail to and from Wales and Ireland. To this end, the road was extended to Holyhead in Wales.
Most of the road is still in use today, only a few sections run differently now. The piece between London and Dover is now the A2, between London and Shrewsbury, the A 5 (which to Holyhead continues ), while a portion of the original road in London is now part of the M 1 motorway.
A Watling Street still exists within London, near the metro station " Mansion House "; However, it is unlikely that it has anything to do with the Roman road. This crossed the Thames by the first London Bridge. Nuneaton, Cannock, Dartford, Gravesend, Rochester, Gillingham, Canterbury, Milton Keynes and St Albans have under their street names a Watling Street.
- Traffic ( Roman Empire )
- Britain ( Roman Empire )
- Road in England
- Abgegangenes building in England