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Well before that, the Roman Fosse Way threaded its way through the town. In later years stage coaches halted at the 18th-century George Inn.

In Roman times Cirencester, Corinium Dubunnorum, was the second most important town in Britain after London, standing near the Roman roads of Akeman Street, the Fosse Way, Ermine Street and the older Icknield

The broad High Street is part of the Fosse Way, and is dominated by the Redesdale Market Hall, a fine Victorian Tudor building designed by Sir Ernest George in 1887.

The Roman town of Aquae Sulis, now Bath, grew up at the point where the Fosse Way crossed the river Avon.

St Mary's Church dominates the photograph from its well-treed setting, with to its right the sheer elevation of The Foss and Grove Hill by Habershon, and to its left the Speech Room tower and chapel fleché

This follows the course of a much older road, the Roman 'Fosse Way', which runs from the 'colonia' of Lincoln to Axminster in Devon, built as a military road around 47 AD.

Well before that, the Roman Fosse Way threaded its way through the town. In later years stage coaches halted at the 18th-century George Inn.

Axmouth stands at the southern end of the Fosse Way, the great Roman road that strides across England from far-off Lincolnshire.

Northleach was once one of the most prosperous wool towns of the Cotswolds in the 15th century, and an important cross-roads of the Fosse Way and the London-Cheltenham roads.

Brayford Pool, a busy inland port that connected Lincoln both to the River Trent via the Roman Foss Dyke and to the sea via the Witham, is much changed now; its warehouses are mostly replaced by offices

The Roman Foss Dyke canal fell out of use during Anglo-Saxon times, but was restored after the Norman Conquest to become one of the main outlets for the great medieval city's wool and lead exports.

The great surging waterfall (the word 'force' is derived from the Old Norse 'foss' ) at Skelwith has been a great visitor attraction since Victorian times.

Brayford Pool, a busy inland port that connected Lincoln both to the River Trent via the Roman Foss Dyke and to the sea via the Witham, is much changed now; its warehouses are mostly replaced by offices

At the heart of Bishop Alexander's town was the large market place into which the Fosse Way was diverted, although none of the buildings in this view are medieval.

The Roman town of Aquae Sulis, now Bath, grew up at the point where the Fosse Way crossed the River Avon with hot spring-fed baths as its focus, where citizens of the Empire flocked for rheumatic cures

Corinium became an important town at the junction of the Fosse Way and Ermine and Akeman Streets.

Covering three acres, it controlled the point where the Fosse Way crossed the River Devon. The wooden bridge was built in 1827 to take the canal towpath over to millrace.

The town is now by-passed by both the A1 Great North Road, which crossed the bridge, and the Fosse Way (the A46).

The village sits astride the Roman Fosse Way, but it is attractive no longer: for the last hundred years it has been in all but name a part of North Leicester.

Its roots are much older, though, for it straddles the Roman Fosse Way, which cuts a course straight as a die from Cirencester through to Leicestershire.

One was the gap between the Blackdown and Brendon Hills, and the other was the coastal route, which used the old ford at Axmouth; this was part of the Roman Fosse Way, which ran all the way to Lincoln.

Corinium became an important town at the junction of the Fosse Way and Ermine and Akeman Streets.

The village sits astride the Roman Fosse Way, but it is attractive no longer: for the last hundred years it has been in all but name a part of North Leicester.

The wagon roof has wooden bosses that are possibly 13th-century. The designs of these bosses include the Tinners' Rabbits - three rabbits sharing only three ears.