Roman Towns in Britain Maestralidia com The Romans

Roman Towns in Britain Maestralidia. com

• The Romans built Britain's first towns. They built towns all over Britain. Within 17 years of the invasion, they have many towns connected by Roman roads Reconstruction of Roman Sichester (Calleva)

What are Roman towns like? • The Roman towns are full of buildings and temples. • Many towns have running water. Aqueducts are bridges for bringing water to the towns. • Only the rich have water piped to their houses; everyone else used water from public fountains.

The Romans like everything to be organised and orderly. Streets are laid out in lines, like on a chess-board. In the middle there is a large square, called the forum. It is used as a market place and for meetings. It has shops and offices on three sides and government offices on the other side.

The Romans introduced the idea of living in big towns and cities. Roman towns were laid out in a grid. Streets crisscrossed the town to form blocks called ‘insulae’. In the middle was the ‘forum’, a big market square where people came to trade. FORUM TAMPLE

What are the largest towns the Romans built in Britain? • The three largest were London, Colchester and St. Albans. • The Romans called towns different names to what we know them as today. • Verulamium (St Albans) • Lindum (Lincoln) • Eboracum (York) • Every town with a name ending in 'chester' or 'caster' or ' cester' was once a Roman town e. g. Doncaster, Dorchester and Cirencester. • Camulodunum (Colchester) • Calleva (Silchester) • Venta (Winchester) • Ratae (Leicester) • Glevum (Gloucester)