Jan., 1890. 
PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF WARWICKSHIRE. 
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where contain well-grown trees, while the hedges of the 
country lanes are of remarkable height and thickness. The 
fact is, that all Warwickshire north of the Avon formed part 
of that mighty “ Forest of Arden,” which once stretched 
northwards to the Trent, and included large parts of 
Worcestershire, Staffordshire, and Leicestershire. The 
picturesque small town of Henley-in-Arden, and the village of 
Hampton-in-Arden, still preserve this title, which was the 
Celtic name for a forest. 
Prehistoric Warwickshire.— The name “ Arden ” thus 
at once takes us back to a period before the Roman invasion. 
This part of England was then a dense forest, scantily 
peopled by the “ Ancient British” tribes called the Cornavii 
and the Wiccii. They were probably herdsmen, grazing their 
flocks of sheep and herds of cattle or swine in the clearings 
and glades of the forest which they knew so well. What 
remains of them to us? Very little, indeed, that is certain. 
Some of the mounds or tumuli may be the burying places of 
their chiefs ; others, surrounded by oval or circular entrench¬ 
ments, and occupying hill tops, are remains of their fortresses 
or camp 3 . 
The name of the county and that of its central town— 
Warwick—mav be derived from the Celtic Gawr, a fortified 
place, and Wiccii, the tribe by which that high mound which 
at Warwick overlooks the Avon, was raised and defended. 
Roman Warwickshire.— As Julius Caesar (b.c. 55) did 
not advance north of the Thames, his famous “ Commen¬ 
taries ” tell us nothing directly of Central England. But a 
later Roman leader, Ostorius Scapula, established a line of 
forts along the Severn in a.d. 50; and he and his successors 
during the next four centuries made those famous “ Roman 
roads ” which were indispensable to the conquest of the 
country. Three famous Roman roads run through Warwick¬ 
shire. The most important is the Watling Street, which 
extended from Richborough in Kent, to Chester. It enters 
Warwickshire near Rugby, and from thence to Atlierstone it 
separates the county from Leicestershire. At High Cross, 
about half way between the two towns, the Watling Street is 
crossed by another Roman road called “The Fosse-Way,” 
which extends thence to Stretton-under-Fosse, in the south¬ 
west of Warwickshire, a distance of forty miles. It runs in 
a nearly straight line, up hill and down dale, with deep 
cuttings and many picturesque views; a true “old-world” 
road, and but little frequented now. Who will walk its 
length with a camera, and resuscitate the Roman ? I knew this 
“old Fosse Road” well when I lived in Leicester, and anti- 
