Editing Coventry (section)

===Origins and toponymy===
The [[Roman Britain|Romans]] founded a large [[fort]] on the outskirts of what is now Coventry at [[Baginton]], next to the [[River Sowe]]; it has been excavated and partially reconstructed in modern times and is known as the [[Lunt Fort]]. The fort was probably constructed around AD 60 in connection with the [[Boudican revolt]] and then inhabited sporadically until around 280 AD.<ref name="Lunt UoW">{{cite web |title=The Development and History of Lunt Fort |url=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/warwickclassicsnetwork/romancoventry/resources/lunt/development/ |publisher=University of Warwick |access-date=4 September 2022}}</ref>

The origins of the present settlement are obscure, but Coventry probably began as an [[Anglo-Saxon]] settlement. Although there are various theories of the origin of the name, the most widely accepted is that it was derived from ''Cofa's tree''; derived from a Saxon landowner called ''Cofa'', and a tree which might have marked either the centre or the boundary of the settlement.{{sfn|Walters|2019|pp=11–14}}