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Ashford Cottage is opposite (left), and Rose Cottage and Foss Cottage are below it. James Foss, who died in 1902, bequeathed £200 towards the upkeep of the parish church.

The cart is beside Rose Cottage and Foss Cottage (left). James Foss, who died in 1902, bequeathed £200 towards the upkeep of the parish church.

Further downhill, at Fiveways, the road on the right is Fosse Lane. Here the Roman Fosse Way climbs out of the Avon valley to cross Banner Down on its way to Cirencester, the Roman town of Corinium.

Newark owes much of its development to the fact that Henry I gave Alexander, Bishop of Lincoln, permission to divert the route of the Fosse Way through the town.

In the street is Mrs Kate Foss wuth Kathleen Mary Foss, holding everyone's attention in the pram. The latter would marry Wilf Symes and become the village postmistress.

Just off the Fosse Way, this village, once the site of a Roman settlement, clusters around the banks of the wide, shallow Windrush, which is crossed by a number of simple footbridges, some

Stow-on-the-Wold is the junction of eight major roads, including the Roman Fosse Way, and has always attracted travellers from far and wide.

It prospered thanks to coal mining, and packhorses carried the coal down the street to the Fosse Way. Nowadays it is a prosperous commuting area, and modern semis punctuate the old stone cottages.

This Tudor house stood on Foss Street, near its junction with Duke Street. The supports for the overhanging upper floors were finely carved wooden animals.

Just off the Fosse Way, this village, once the site of a Roman settlement, clusters around the banks of the wide, shallow Windrush, which is crossed by a number of simple footbridges, some

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

The view is taken from the coal wharf on the Foss Navigation.

Stratton is strung along the Fosse Way, a Roman road. Its elaborate and recently restored war memorial stands on the junction with Church Lane.

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 Fosse Way runs down from the right of this picture to meet the Avon and follow it to Bath, three miles away.

Here we see the approach across the narrow stone causeway which crossed the fosse. The keep was positioned in such a way as to command this entrance.

The village sits at the confluence of a number of ancient routes, the most important of which is the Fosse Way.

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 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.

Further south is the Foss Dyke. In the middle distance is the site of the old swing bridge, now replaced by the present 1937 bridge on the A57 bypass upon which the photographer is standing.

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.

The main road from London follows the Fosse Way here into Bath. Trams, originally horse-drawn, once ran along the same route.

In the 17th century, the only stretch of the Fosse Way known to have been maintained was that between East Stoke and Newark.

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.