Information about 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 a more complete list including later Latin names, see List of Latin place names in North Atlantic islands.

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.

Country names

Roman name	Modern name	Source
Albion	Great Britain	Ptolemy
Britannia	Great Britain	Tacitus
Cambria	Wales (Cymru)
Caledonia	Scotland	Tacitus
Hibernia	Ireland

City/Town names

Roman name	Modern name	Source
Anavio	Brough-on-Noe, Hope Valley, Derbyshire (See also Navio)
Aquae Arnemetiae	Buxton, Derbyshire
Aquae Sulis	Bath
Ardotalia	Gamesley, Glossop, Derbyshire
Caeseromagus	Chelmsford, Essex	AI
Calcaria	Tadcaster, North Yorkshire	AI
Calleva Atrebatum	Silchester	AI
Camulodunum	Colchester	Ravenna
Clausentum	Bitterne, Hampshire
Condate	Northwich, Cheshire	AI
Corinium Dobunnorum	Cirencester
Coria	Corbridge
Danum	Doncaster
Deva	Chester
Dubris	Dover	AI
Durnovaria	Dorchester
Durocobrivis	Dunstable
Durocornovium	Swindon
Durolipons	Cambridge
Durolitum	Romford
Durovernum Cantiacorum	Canterbury
Eboracum	York	Ptolemy
Garrianonum	Burgh Castle
Glevum Colonia	Gloucester
Hortonium	Halifax
Isca Dumnoniorum	Exeter	AI
Isca Augusta	Caerleon
Lactodorum	Towcester
Lagentium	Castleford
Lindinis	Ilchester
Lindum Colonia	Lincoln
Londinium	London	Ptolemy	AI
Mamucium	Manchester
Mediolanum	Whitchurch, Shropshire
Navio	See Anavio
Noviomagus Reginorum	Chichester
Noviomagus Cantiacorum	Crayford
Ratae Corieltauvorum	Leicester
Segontium	Caernarfon
Venta Belgarum	Winchester	AI
Verulamium	St Albans	Tacitus
Viroconium Cornoviorum	Wroxeter, Shropshire
Vindolanda	Chesterholme

References

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

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List of Roman Place names in Great Britain and Ireland

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TA: Tacitus (Gaius Cornelius Tacitus), Agricola

PNH: Pliny (Gaius Plinius Secundus), Naturalis Historia; book "PNH" chapter (that is, "37PNH81" instead of the usual "N.H.xxxvii.81").
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Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος; after 83 – 161 AD), known in English as Ptolemy, was a Greek^[1] or Egyptian
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Transliteration is the practice of transcribing a word or text written in one writing system into another writing system. It is also the system of rules for that practice.

Technically, from a linguistic point of view, it is a mapping from one system of writing into another.
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Albion (called Alouion by Ptolemy) is the most ancient name of Great Britain, though sometimes used to refer to the United Kingdom, or specifically (incorrectly) to England.
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The Britannias was the original Latin name the Roman Empire gave to the British Isles, consisting of Albion, Hibernia and many smaller islands, originating from a reference from Pytheas of Massilia (Marseilles) in around 300 BC to the Pretanic (or Britannic) Islands.
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Gaius Cornelius Tacitus

Gaius Cornelius Tacitus
Born: Circa 56AD

Died: Circa 117

Occupation: Senator, consul, governor, historian
Genres: History
Subjects: History, biography, oratory
Literary movement: Silver Age of Latin
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Cambria is a latinised form of Cymru, which is the Welsh name for Wales. The name Cymru is thought to derive from an old Brythonic word "combroges", meaning "compatriots", and derives from the struggle with the Anglo-Saxons.
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Motto
Cymru am byth (Welsh)
"Wales forever"
Anthem
"Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau"
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Caledonia is the Latin name given by the Roman Empire to a northern area of the island of Great Britain. The name means "Wooded Land". In others it may mean the area north of the Antonine Wall. In English and Scots 'Caledonia' is now a romantic or poetic name for Scotland.
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Motto
Nemo me impune lacessit (Latin)
"No one provokes me with impunity"
"Cha togar m'fhearg gun dioladh"
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Hibernia is the Roman Latin name for the island of Ireland.

Meaning of Hibernia

Hibernia may derive from the Latin term hibernus that translates as "wintry.
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Ireland
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Northwest of continental Europe with Great Britain to the east.

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Hope Valley could refer to:

The Hope Valley, Derbyshire
The Hope Valley, Shropshire
Hope Valley, Rhode Island, a village
Hope Valley, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth
Hope Valley, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide