Fosse Way

or FOSSE. One of the four ancient Roman ways through England. Spelman, voc. "Ikenild Street."

or FOSSE. One of the four great roads of England built by the Romans; so called from the ditch on each side. Trevisa describes it thus: “The first and gretest of the foure weyes is called fosse, and stretches oute of the southe into the north, and begynneth from the corner of Cornewaile, and passeth forth by Devenshyre by Somersete, and forth besides Tetbury, upon Cotteswold, besides Coventre, unto Leyster, and so forth, by wylde pleynes towards Newerke, and endeth at Lincoln” (Polychron 1. 1, c. xiv.). Wharton. Watling-Street is the best known of them, reaching from Dover to London and to Anglesey in Wales.

or FOSSH. One of the four ancient Roman ways through England. Spelman.

or FOSSE. One of the four ancient Roman Ways through England. Spelman, Id. voc. Ikenild Street