Fosse Way

It's the Ninth Legion which founds Lincoln.

And it's broadly at that point as you reach, oh, you're looking at about AD 50, that, that, that you have a stop line, and it's often called the Fosse Way frontier.

So a stop line which runs broadly from Lincoln through to Exeter, becomes the Fosse Way, the Roman route way from the southwest to the northeast.

Um, and that stops there for broadly a decade.

Shall we talk about that briefly? Because I do love how on a map, even today, with those urban cities and, and towns as well, you can actually kind of follow the Ninth's movement north.

Watling Street ran from the southeast coast through Londinium and onto the northwest.

The Fosse Way cut diagonally across the country from the southwest to Lincolnshire, marking for a time the frontier of Roman control.

These roads were built to move soldiers quickly, but they ended up moving everything – trade, information, culture, people.

Londinium itself grew from a practical river crossing into the commercial heart of the province within a generation.

So there's a eight minute piece with Norfolk County Council on some very innovative systems on flooding detection display, and also using a new low power network called LoRaWAN.

And we've also got a drive through of the Fosse Way in Warwickshire.

So it's looking at a 38 mile stretch, pretty much from the southwest corner to the northeast corner of Warwickshire.

And every junction we've now got a system on there, our collision avoidance system that is reducing collisions and reducing average speeds.

we know about the Foss, don't we? Yes.

Foss, of course, is the Foss Way.

It was one of the most famous Roman roads in this country, one of the most famous and straightest.

And I forget where it runs from, but I know it goes up to Leicester because, of course, the Leicester City football team known as the Leicester Foss when they were first founded.

The Saunders family had gathered for an innocent meal at the White Lion.

On their way home through the country lanes, they came to the Fosse Way.

We came around the bend and there were these lights up, hovering by the side of the road.

They were red and a bit of white mingled in.