Cricklade

Cricklade, town (parish), administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, England. Cricklade lies at the head of navigation of the upper Thames, at the point where the river intersected Ermine Street, a Roman road linking Silchester and Cirencester. A Roman fort was established there as a reconnaissance centre in 69 ce. Cricklade was created a borough by the Saxon king Alfred the Great in 871, and by the early 10th century it was sufficiently important to...