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List of Roman place names in Britain

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List of Roman place names in Britain
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A partial list of Roman place names in Great Britain.[1]

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Roman Britain. Map from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

This list includes only names documented from Roman times. For a more complete list including later Latin names, see List of Latin place names in Britain.

The early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and misspellings of the Latin names. Moreover, Ptolemy, one of the principal authorities, wrote in Greek, so names that he records need to be transliterated back into Latin to reveal the original form.

Note that in general only one source is shown below for each name, although many of the names are recorded in more than one of the sources.

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Geographic regions

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Settlement names

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See also

Primary sources

  1. AI: The Antonine Itinerary[8]
  2. P: Ptolemy's Geography[9]
  3. RC: The Ravenna Cosmography[10]
  4. T: Tacitus's On the Life and Character of Julius Agricola.
  5. SP: Confession of St. Patrick
  6. ND: Notitia Dignitatum

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