• Alchester is the site of an ancient Roman town. The site is not included in any ancient references; hence, the Roman name is not known. However, Eilert...
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    Bicester (category Market towns in Oxfordshire)
    forts'. (A Roman fortress at Alchester is 2 miles (3 km) southwest of the town, and Chesterton village is on the course of Akeman Street, the Roman road between...
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  • County, South Dakota, US, in the List of townships in South Dakota Alchester Roman Town, Oxfordshire. England Algester, Queensland, Australia This disambiguation...
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    the Wolds) Alchester North Leigh Roman Villa Viroconium Cornoviorum, Wroxeter Aquae Sulis (Roman Bath) Burrington Charterhouse Roman Town and Mining Settlement...
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    their Latin names in brackets; civitates are marked C Alcester (Alauna) Alchester Aldborough, North Yorkshire (Isurium Brigantum) C Bath (Aquae Sulis) C...
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    field boundaries to the east. The village is 2 miles (3 km) east of Alchester Roman Town. Ambrosden has a Church of England parish church and a public house...
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    Bicester. The parish is bounded to the east by the Roman road that linked Alchester Roman Town with Roman Towcester, to the south by a brook that joins the...
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    north of the Akeman Street Roman road, which connected Cirencester directly with Alchester (Roman town) near Bicester. Alchester was a strategic location...
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    an Iron Age hill fort. The Romans built a vicus here, with a road linking the settlement to a military camp at Alchester, 16 miles (25 km) to the north...
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    province of the Roman Empire. It is estimated that about 2,000 mi (3,200 km) of paved trunk roads (surfaced roads running between two towns or cities) were...
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    Akeman Street (category Roman roads in England)
    reorganised by the Romans. Its course passes through towns and villages including Hemel Hempstead, Berkhamsted, Tring, Aylesbury, Alchester (outside modern...
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    Tiddington, almost 1+1⁄2 miles (2 km) north-east of the Roman road linking Salinae (Droitwich) and Alchester. Tiddington Road follows the main axis of the settlement...
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    east and A420 road to the west). The course of a Roman road between Dorchester on Thames and Alchester passes through Barton. Barton Manor is a 17th-century...
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    of Akeman Street, the Roman road between Watling Street and Cirencester, about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Alchester Roman Town. The road forms part of...
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    boundary largely follows the course of a Roman road that linked Dorchester on Thames and Alchester Roman Town. In the Romano-British period there were...
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    of Special Scientific Interest. Bisected north–south by the Roman Road between Alchester and Dorchester-on-Thames, its name is derived from the Old English...
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    village.[citation needed] The Roman road between Dorchester-on-Thames and Alchester runs through the centre of Berinsfield. An Anglo-Saxon cemetery was also...
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    Roman Canterbury, including the important late Roman silver hoard known as the Canterbury Treasure, together with reconstructions of the Roman town....
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    Antiquities of Bicester. .. To which is added an Inquiry into the History of Alchester, a city of the Dobuni. … With an Appendix and … Kennetts Glossary, 2 parts...
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    Ely, Cambridgeshire (category Towns in Cambridgeshire)
    major Roman road named Akeman Street which started from Verulamium (southwest of St Albans) then via Tring and Aylesbury terminating near Alchester. In...
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    at Dorchester-on-Thames with a Roman military camp at Alchester near Bicester. A road called Roman Way follows part of its route. It is behind the Mini...
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    about 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) west of the Roman road that linked the Roman towns at Dorchester on Thames and Alchester. It began production about AD 100, producing...
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    Dover and Wroxeter, and the early road to Alchester (Bicester), where it joined the Akeman Street. The Alchester Road eventually extended to Winchester,...
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    population from the 2011 Census is not available. The course of the Roman road that linked Alchester near Bicester with Lactodurum (now Towcester) runs through...
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    Sir Kenneth Darling 1909–1998 Soldier and General Vicarage Farmhouse, Alchester Road, Chesterton 4 July 2015 William Henry Dines 1855–1927 Pioneering...
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    between two of the hills. The course of the former Roman road that linked Dorchester on Thames with Alchester passes through the western part of the parish...
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    2011 Census population is 310. The course of the Roman road that linked Dorchester on Thames with Alchester passes through the parish on a north–south axis...
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  • excavations include the excavation of prehistoric flint scatters and a Roman bloomery at the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road, the medieval friary of Greyfriars...
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    "Fencott and Murcott". The course of the former Roman road that linked Dorchester on Thames with Alchester passes through the village. Part of it is now...
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    Census recorded the parish's population as 1,788. The ancient Roman road between Alchester and Towcester, now the A4421, forms the eastern boundary of the...
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