It acquired the name Icknield Way during the 12th century but it is now called Icknield Street (or Ryknild Street) to distinguish it from the older Icknield Way, an Iron Age trackway running from Norfolk to Dorset.
The Watling Street and Fosse Way Roman roads were constructed, and for several decades the Fosse Way marked the western frontier of Roman rule in Britain.
Aluana was an important walled town, which stood at a junction of the RyknildStreet and an east-west road.
Watling Street, on the north-eastern edge of Warwickshire, became the boundary between the Danelaw (the kingdom of the Danes) to the east and the much reduced Mercia to the west.
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