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Fosse-way, Fosse Way Hist.|ˈfɒsweɪ|
Also Foss Way, Foss-way.
[f. fosse 2 + way n.1]
One of the four great Roman roads in Britain, so called from the ditch or fosse on each side; it probably ran from Axminster to Lincoln, via Bath and Leicester.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 562 Thus much of the Feldon, or champion part, which, that ancient Fosse-way (a thing that would not bee overpassed) cutteth over⁓thwart. c1703C. Fiennes Journeys (1949) iv. vi. 333, I came..to High Crosse which is esteemed the middle off England, where the two great Roads meete that divides the kingdom in the Saxons tyme in 4 parts, the Whatling Streete.., and the Fosse Way. 1797Encycl. Brit. V. 26/1 The fosse-way, which comes from Scotland, passes through this county and town to Totness in Devonshire. 1838Penny Cycl. X. 381/1 From Aquæ Solis the Foss-way continued its course in a pretty direct line to Ischalis (Ilchester), of which town it forms the principal street. 1876Encycl. Brit. V. 792/2 The junction of the Fosse-way with the Ermin and Icknield streets. 1937Collingwood & Myres Roman Brit. (ed. 2) xxi. 353 Even if we assume that..the south-east of Britain as far as the Fosse Way had passed by 442 under Saxon dominion, there is other fifth-century evidence which is hard to reconcile with such an idea. 1965Timperley & Brill Anc. Trackways of Wessex xxii. 131 As the trackway came near to the Avon it may have been superseded by the Foss Way for the rest of its journey to join up with the Cotswold Ridgeway. |