List of Roman place names in Britain

A partial list of Roman place names in Great Britain.

This list includes only names documented from Roman times. For later Latin names, see List of British places with Latin names.

The early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and mis-spellings of the Latin names. Moreover one of the principal authorities, Ptolemy, 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.

Contents

Region/country names

Roman nameModern name Source
AlbionGreat Britain Ptolemy
BritanniaGreat BritainTacitus
CaledoniaScotlandTacitus
HiberniaIreland 

Island names

Roman nameModern nameSource
MalaeusMullPtolemy
MonaAngleseyPtolemy
MonaoedaIsle of ManPtolemy
OrcadesOrkneyPtolemy
ScetisSkyePtolemy
TaniatideThanetRavenna
VectisIsle of WightPtolemy

City names

Roman name Modern nameSource
Aquae SulisBath
ArdotaliaGamesley, Glossop. Derbyshire
CaeseromagusChelmsford, EssexAI
CalcariaTadcaster, North YorkshireAI
Calleva AtrebatumSilchesterAI
CamulodunumColchesterRavenna
ClausentumBitterne, Hampshire
CoriniumCirencester
CorstopitumCorbridge
DevaChester
DubrisDoverAI
DurnovariaDorchester
DurocobrivisDunstable
DurocornoviumSwindon
DurolitumRomford
Durovernum CantiacorumCanterbury
EboracumYorkPtolemy
GarrianonumBurgh Castle
Glevum ColoniaGloucester
HortoniumHalifax
Isca DumnoniorumExeterAI
Isca SiluriumCaerleon
LactodorumTowcester
Lindum ColoniaLincoln
LondiniumLondonPtolemyAI
MamuciumManchester
MediolanumWhitchurch, Shropshire
NoviomagusChichester
Ratae CoritanorumLeicester
SegontiumCaernarfon
Venta BelgarumWinchesterAI
VerulamiumSt AlbansTacitus
ViroconiumWroxeter, Shropshire
VindolandaChesterholme

See also

References

  1. A.L.F. Rivet and Colin Smith, The place-names of Roman Britain. London, 1979 (reprinted by Book Club Associates, 1981).
  2. Tacitus (Cornelius Tacitus), Britannia.
  3. AI: Antonine itinerary
  4. Ravenna Cosmography (Ravennatis Anonymi Cosmographia)
  5. Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus), Geographia.

External links

no:Liste over romerske stedsnavn i Britannia

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