WATLINGSTREET, (Miscellaneous) by the vulgar called Street-Way, was one of the Praetorian or consular highways made by the
Romans, for the march of their armies, &c. of large stakes and lesser wood bet. them, to keep up the earth and stones,
called by the Saxons Wattles. It is reckoned the finest causey in England, if not in Europe. It is very firm in some Co.
for several ms. especially in Shropshire, Staffordshire, and part of Warwickshire. It begins at Dover, and runs to St.
Albans, Dunstable, Towcester, Atherston and Shrewsbury, and ends at Cardigan in Wales. In some places it is called by the
several inh. High- Dike, High-Ridge, Forty-foot-Way, and Ridge-Way.