What is Icknield Street?
{{confuse|Icknield Way}} [[File:Ryknild street.jpg|thumb|A part of Icknield Street in Sutton Park]] '''Icknield Street''' or '''Ryknild Street''' is a [[Roman roads|Roman road]] in [[Great Britain|Britain]] that runs from the [[Fosse Way]] at [[Bourton on the Water]] in [[Gloucestershire]] to [[Templeborough]] in [[South Yorkshire]]. It passes through [[Alcester]], [[Birmingham]], [[Lichfield]] and [[Derby]]. Four Roman roads are named in the Laws of [[Edward the Confessor]]; [[Watling Street]], [[Ermine Street]], the Fosse Way and Hikenild (or Icknield) Street. Hikenild Street, is generally supposed to be connected with the Iceni. Various forms of the name, the earliest, in Anglo-Saxon, are Icenhilde Weg or Icenilde We. These roads are from the borders of Norfolk through [[Cambridgeshire]], Bucks, Berks, Hants, and Wilts into Dorset. These locations however would identify the path as [[Icknield Way]], an [[Iron Age]] trackway running from [[Norfolk]] to [[Dorset]]. This road got the name Ryknild Street during the 12th century when it was named by [[Ranulf Higdon]], a monk writing in 1344 in his ''Polychronicon''. Higdon, gives the name of the fourth road as Rikenild Strete, which, he says, tends from the south-west to the north, and begins at St. David's and continues to the mouth of the Tyne, passing Worcester, Droitwich, Birmingham, Lichfield, Derby, and Chesterfield. It has borne that name, or Rigning, Reenald, or Rignall, from early times. In three of the four MSS. of Higdon, the name is given Rikenilde, Rikenyldes, and in the fourth, which is said to be one of the earliest, Hikenil Street. Trevisa's English translation (1387) calls it Rykeneldes Street. Harverfield writing in the [[Victoria County History]] of [[Warwickshire]] doubted if the road had any real and original right to either name, preferring Ryknild as no less correct, (or no more wrong) and being able to separate it from Icknield Street in Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It is now called Icknield or Ryknild Street to separate it from the older