Lethaby, William Richard: Westminster Abbey and the antiquities of the coronation (London: Duckworth & Co., 1911)

Akeman’s Street. Westwards along the
street to Cyrringe, thence back to the
mound.” I may not stay to work out all
the topographical implications of this
document, but I cannot forbear pointing
out that here we find the street along the
course of the present Oxford Street
named Watling Street, and then some-
where to the south of it an “ old street,”
possibly the same as Aldwych, then again
Akeman’s Street, an unknown name for
the Strand, leading to Charing, that is,
of course, our Charing Cross. The
mound from which the boundary starts
and to which it returns must be that
which gave Tothill Street its name.
Cuford was the passage over the Tyburn
in Piccadilly.
If the road over the present Oxford
Street and Holborn was called Watling
Street, it evidently connected the existing
Watling Street in the City with Edgware
Road, which also, in Saxon days, bore
the same name ; and the whole road from
London Bridge to Edgware Road and
onward must have been part of the Great
Watling Street. If the Strand was called
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