High Cross is the name given to the crossroads of the Roman roads of Watling Street (now the A5) and Fosse Way on the border between Leicestershire and Warwickshire, England. A naturally strategic high point, High Cross was "the central cross roads" of Anglo-Saxon and Roman Britain.
High Cross has marked several frontiers through history. In the Iron Age the area is believed to have been the frontier between the Corieltauvi and Dobunni tribes.
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- The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. X, No. 272, published 8 September 1827
- Burbage the Centre of England, Sylvia Whitworth, Burbage Heritage group.