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Watling Street
A road extending east and west across South Britain. Beginning
at Dover, it ran through Canterbury to London, and thence to Cardigan.
The word is a corruption of Vitellina strata, the
paved road of Vitellius, called by the Britons Guetalin. Poetically
the “Milky Way” has been called the Watling Street of the
sky.
“Secunda via principalis dicitur Wateling-streate, tendens
ab euro-austro in zephyrum septentrionalem. Incipit ... a Dovaria ...
usque Cardigan.” —Leland.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Watling Street from Infoplease:
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