Welsh Way

An Iron Age trade route that carried commerce between South Wales and the Oxford area across the Cotswold Hills. It links the highest navigable point on the River Thames at Lechlade to the lowest crossing of the River Severn at Gloucester. The route was later improved by the Roman army as a link between Akeman Street and the Fosse Way. From the 13th to 18th centuries it served as a Welsh cattle droving route to London, taking the name Tame's Way after a Cotswolds merchant family.