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You're walking or driving along one of Roman Britain's most important roads.
The Fosse Way stretched from Exeter in the southwest all the way to Lincoln in the northeast, functioning as a vital trade and military route across the province nearly two thousand years ago. This particular stretch won't show you dramatic ruins or excavated settlements, but what makes it genuinely worthwhile is traveling the actual path that Roman soldiers and merchants once used.
The real appeal comes from the continuity of it all. The modern road often follows the exact Roman alignment, which says something meaningful about how skillfully those engineers understood their work. As you travel the route, you can consider that distant past and imagine the people who moved along this same way centuries ago.
If you want to experience quiet everyday English country life, the village of Crudwell is nearby. For more substantial exploration, head south to Malmesbury, where you'll find an impressive abbey, or north to Cirencester, known as the Capital of the Cotswolds. Cirencester was the Roman settlement of Corinium Dobunnorum and it's well worth the journey—the town has an excellent Roman museum and the remains of an amphitheatre that really help you understand what Roman life in this region actually looked like.
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