FOSSE (or Foss) WAY, the early English name of a Roman road or series of roads in Britain, used later by the English. running from Lincoln by Leicester and Bath to Exeter. Almost all the Roman line is still in use as modern road. It passes from Lincoln through Newark and Leicester (the Roman Ratae) to High Cross (Venonae), where it intersects Watling Street at a point often called "the centre of England." Hence it runs to Moreton-in-the-Marsh, Cirencester, Bath and Ilchester, crosses the hills near Chard, Axminster and Honiton, and enters Exeter. (See further under ERMINE STREET.)