Toponymy of England the specific names for each may only have little relation to the Roman names (e.g. modern Chester was actually called Deva by the Romans). Modern Winchester was "Venta Belgarum", the "Win-" element deriving from "Venta" in a similar way to the names "Caerwent" and "Gwent" from "Venta Silurum" in south Wales. In Cornwall, most placenames are Cornish in origin: e.g. "Penzance" (holy headland). In eastern Cornwall, the names show a stronger English influence. Placenames of Cornish origin are also found in the South Hams, North Devon and West Somerset. Brythonic but non-Cornish placenames, sometimes showing Cornish or Welsh influence, are
Roman Road, London Roman Road, London Roman Road is a road in East London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and lies on the old Roman road in the Roman Empire called the Pye Road running from the capital of the Iceni at Venta Icenorum (near modern Norwich) to Londinium (modern London) and today hosts a market. It lies in five districts: Bow and Old Ford at its eastern end, while the area with the same name Roman Road lies to just west, to the middle is Mile End and Bethnal Green at its western end. There is some debate about