id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 40271 Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard) London Before the Conquest .txt text/plain 43195 2704 80 17.--London and the Roman Roads: The Watling Street Stow's opinion that London Bridge before the twelfth century was far to on Dowgate, that Old Street was the great west-to-east Roman road, and The city of London, when the Roman garrison was withdrawn from its walls, says that the Watling Street crossed over another Roman road (now Oxford Street, originally passed to the north of London into Essex (by Old called Ealde Street in the twelfth century.[55] The Roman road has been The branch from the great Watling Street to the city, by Tyburn and St. Andrew's Holborn, is described in a charter giving in Saxon the boundaries military road of the Romans called Stone Street." It was "some 30 feet London from the passage of the river by the great Watling Street. London Stone with city history probably rests in great part on the fact of ./cache/40271.txt ./txt/40271.txt