Cave's Inn
Other OS name in the Parish of Shawell
Etymology
, 1807Nichols ; named from an 18th - cent. landlord , Edward Cave , and stands beside Watling Street at the site of the important Romano - British settlement of Tripontium ( ' (the place of) three bridges ' ) , v. A . L . P . Rivet and Colin Smith , The Place - Names of Roman Britain ( 1979 ) , 476 .