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Ermine Street, Saxon name for the Roman road in Britain that ran from London to Lincoln and York. It was one of the four main highways of Saxon England. The name is derived from the Earningas, a group of people who inhabited an area in Cambridgeshire through which the road passed. The road from Silchester to Gloucester was also called Ermine Street.
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CANYON COUNTRY -- Pat Phelan has lived in the same house on Ermine Street for 32 years and has seen neighbors come and go. In November, the city Planning Commission shunned city traffic engineers' recommendations to extend Ermine Street in favor of its residents' pleas to keep the dead-end street as is. Under pressure from residents of Ermine Street - initially slated to be extended to serve the new project - the commission agreed to close their street and force traffic to other outlets. |
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