Other Watling Streets
The Roman Road from Cataractonium (now Catterick, North Yorkshire) to Corstopitum (now Corbridge, Northumberland) and on to the Antonine Wall (also known as Grym's Dyke or Graham's Dyke, from Grim, a name of Woden ) also came to be known as Watling Street, with perhaps a similar Old English etymology owing to its path into the foreign land of Scotland. This route is also known as Dere Street. This may also be the case for another Watling Street in Lancashire, which runs from Manchester (Mamucium) via Affetside to Ribchester (Bremetennacum), and hence ultimately led to another 'foreign land' in Saxon times, that of Rheged or modern Cumbria.
A Watling Street Road exists to this day in the city of Preston, Lancashire. It connects the districts of Ribbleton and Fulwood and passes the site of Sharoe Green Hospital.
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