High Cross, Leicestershire
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High Cross is the name given to the former crossroads of the Roman roads of Watling Street and Fosse Way in Leicestershire, England. It is located about a mile west of the village of Claybrooke Magna and was located in the hundred of Guthlaxton. It was the site of a Roman fort known as Venonis.
In 2008, this section of Watling Street is now a dual carriageway section of the A5, the southern part of the Fosse Way is a B road, and the northern route of the Fosse is now a track which forms a part of a long-distance path called the Leicestershire Round.
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- Venonis
- The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. X, No. 272, published September 8, 1827
