Timeline for High Street goods

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Feb 1, 2017 at 18:00	comment	added	MMacD		@JamesP: Yes, it's true. See, e.g., britannica.com/technology/road
Feb 1, 2017 at 16:39	comment	added	user42526		@MMacD Is that actually true? I can't find any good references and didn't think Roman roads are that high, only cambered. In Roman towns the main streets are usually lower than their surroundings.
Jan 25, 2017 at 6:53	history	tweeted			twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/824148219827515393
Jan 24, 2017 at 21:26	comment	added	WRX		@MMacD I knew that but did not even think to say it. Really good point because OP may think high as meaning high or first class, not literally or originally meant as higher. I think of them as busy/main streets and did not think to add that either.
Jan 24, 2017 at 21:01	comment	added	MMacD		You might be interested to know that they were called high streets because they followed the Roman model of raising paved roads above the level of their surroundings so that they'd drain well. At first only main roads were raised (high ways), and then, as towns/cities grew up along the edges of the highways, with feeder paths (usually unpaved) branching off, they became known as high streets (Anglo-Saxon stræt, from Latin strada, road).
Jan 24, 2017 at 18:27	comment	added	Mick		Two good answers below, so no need of a third, but I would not have capitalised High Street, and I would have hyphenated it to make the meaning clearer: high-street goods.
Jan 24, 2017 at 17:22	history	edited	Nicolas Raoul	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 110 characters in body
Jan 24, 2017 at 17:15	answer	added	LMS		timeline score: 12
Jan 24, 2017 at 17:14	answer	added	WRX		timeline score: 5
Jan 24, 2017 at 17:13	history	edited	John Feltz		Added british-english tag
Jan 24, 2017 at 17:07	history	asked	Nicolas Raoul	CC BY-SA 3.0