Roman settlements across Britain — towns, roadside villages, native farmsteads and civilian nucleated sites from the Roman period.
411 sites — individual pages for each
Roman Britain's settlement pattern ranged from the four great coloniae — Colchester, Lincoln, Gloucester and York — to small roadside villages and native British farmsteads that adopted Roman building techniques. The civitas capitals administered the tribal territories of pre-Roman Britain, while small towns grew at road junctions and river crossings, serving local markets and travellers.
All 411 settlement sites recorded in Britain are listed below, each with its own dedicated page covering historical context, significance, nearby Roman sites, scheduled monuments and Domesday Book cross-references.
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