Roman settlements across Britain — towns, roadside villages, native farmsteads and civilian nucleated sites from the Roman period.
414 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 414 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.
Pick any location and Aubrey pulls together 15 strands of its history, each drawn from the record:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical reports drawing on Roman heritage, Domesday records, scheduled monuments and archaeological finds.