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 Britain.

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

Lists

Geographic regions

Settlement names

See also

• List of Latin place names in Britain
• List of Latin place names in Continental Europe and Ireland
• Latin names of cities
• Latin names of regions
• Latin names of European countries
• History of Britain
• History of Ireland
• Roman sites in the United Kingdom
• United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names

Primary sources

1. AI: The Antonine Itinerary
2. P: Ptolemy's Geography
3. RC: The Ravenna Cosmography
4. T: Tacitus's On the Life and Character of Julius Agricola.
5. SP: Confession of St. Patrick
6. ND: Notitia Dignitatum

References

External links

• Dr. J. G. Th. Grässe, Orbis Latinus: Lexikon lateinischer geographischer Namen des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, online at the Bavarian State Library
• Grässe, Orbis Latinus, online at Columbia University
• Interpreter List of Roman Place names in Great Britain and Ireland