Apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, and public health, the Romans also gave us some interesting place names! Many of you will have heard of Londinium, the Latin name for the capital city, but there are plenty of others too.
Here are some of them :
Bath, Somerset - Aquae Sulis
Bridlington, Yorkshire - Praesidium or Praetorium
Caerleon, Wales - Isca Augusta
Canterbury, Kent - Durovernum Cantiacorum
Chelmsford, Essex - Caesaromagus
Dunstable, Bedfordshire - Durocobrivis
East Lothian, Scotland - Evidensca
Exeter, Devon - Isca Dumnoniorum
Gloucester, Gloucestershire - Glevum Colonia
Ilkley, Yorkshire - Olicana
Lympne, Kent - Portus Lemanis
Northwich, Cheshire - Condate
Reculver, Kent - Regulbium
Staines-upon-Thames, Surrey - Ad Pontes
Winchester, Hampshire - Venta Belgarum
Wroxeter, Shropshire - Viroconium Cornoviorum
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