Editing Watling Street (section)

==Name==
The original [[Common Brittonic|Celtic]] and [[Latin|Roman]] name for the road is unknown, and the Romans may not have viewed it as a single path at all, since parts of it were assigned to two separate itineraries in [[Antonine Itinerary|one 2nd-century list]]. The modern name instead derives from the [[Old English]] ''{{lang|ang|Wæcelinga Stræt}}'', from a time when "street" {{nowrap|({{langx|la|via strata}})}} referred to any paved road and had no particular association with urban thoroughfares. The {{lang|ang|[[Waeclingas]]}} ("people of {{lang|ang|Waecla}}")<ref name="Williamson p64">{{cite book |last=Williamson |first=Tom |title=The Origins of Hertfordshire |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L87sjkrXr60C&pg=PA64 |access-date=13 September 2014 |year=2000 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=071904491X |page=64 }}</ref> were a tribe in the [[St Albans]] area. [[history of Anglo-Saxon England|early medieval period]].<ref name="Williamson p64"/><ref>John Cannon, ''A Dictionary of British History'', 2009.</ref> The Anglo-Saxon name of St Albans was {{lang|ang|Wætlingaceaster}} referred to in a charter of 1005;<ref>{{cite web |url=https://esawyer.lib.cam.ac.uk/charter/912.html |title=S 912 |series=The Electronic Sawyer: Online catalogue of Anglo-Saxon charters}} (section "Old text")</ref> this would translate into modern English as "Watlingchester".

The original Anglo-Saxon name for the section of the route between Canterbury and London was ''{{lang|ang|Casingc Stræt}}'' or Key Street, a name still borne by a hamlet on the road near [[Sittingbourne]].{{sfn|Margary|1973|p=34}} This section only later became considered part of Watling Street.{{sfn|Margary|1973|p=34}}