Another place nearer to London which is named from a ford is Brentford, but Dr. Guest thought that the ford so named was over the Brent instead of the Thames. He allows that the English army here twice crossed over the Thames in 1016, as recorded in the Chronicle, but argues that there was only a "shallow" in the Thames at this point, and that the _ford_ was over the Brent. William of Malmesbury, however, seems to have anticipated all this by saying very distinctly "the ford called Brentford" and the "ford at Brentford" when speaking of the crossings of the Thames in 1016. Gough in his edition of Camden says that the Thames was easily passed here at low water. Of a ford at Westminster, which from a mere unsubstantial hypothesis has swollen into quite a big myth in the pages of Sir W. Besant, there is not a scrap of evidence. There was, however, throughout the Middle Age a ferry here, and the name still survives in Horseferry Road. The Roman bridge at Staines (_Pontes_) may be the one, the existence of which is implied in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 1013, and in 1009 we are told that the army went over the river at Staines.[50] In the Middle Ages there was a bridge between Staines and London on the river at Kingston, and Horsley thought that Cæsar crossed by a ford here. CHAPTER III ROADS AND THE BRIDGE Upon thy lusty brigge of pylers white Been merchauntis full royall to behold: Upon thy stretis goeth many a semely Knyght Arrayit in velvet gownes and cheynes of gold. WILLIAM DUNBAR. _Roads._--The Roman roads of the Antonine Itinerary which affect London are: Iter 2, the great road from Canterbury to London and St. Albans and beyond (the Watling Street); Iter 5, London to Colchester, and from thence to Lincoln; Iter 6, London to Lincoln, starting by the Watling Street; Iter 7, from Chichester through Silchester and passing the river at Staines (_Pontes_), through Brentford to London.[51] [Illustration: FIG. 17.--LONDON AND THE ROMAN ROADS.]