Verulamium
Verulamium was a town in Roman Britain.

Verulamium was a town in Roman Britain. It was sited southwest of the modern city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England. The major ancient Roman route Watling Street passed through the city, but was realigned in medieval times to bring trade to St Albans. It was about a day's walk from London.
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Worth seeing in and around Verulamium
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01St Albans Cathedral
St Albans Cathedral, officially the Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban, also known as "the Abbey", is a Church of England cathedral in St Albans, England. Much of its architecture dates from Norman times.
800 m · cathedral in St Albans, England · Wikipedia - 02Diocese of St Albans
The Diocese of St Albans forms part of the Province of Canterbury in England and is part of the wider Church of England, in turn part of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The diocese is home to more than 1.6 million people and comprises the historic Counties of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, or in terms of local government areas, Bedfordshire, Luton, Hertfordshire and parts of the London Borough of Barnet.
1 km · diocese of the Church of England · Wikipedia - 03Clarence Park, St Albans
Clarence Park is an association football stadium and surrounding public park in St Albans, Hertfordshire, which serves as the home ground for Isthmian League Premier Division club St Albans City. The park is also home to a number of other sports facilities, including a cricket ground and bowls club.
2.1 km · sports venue and park in St Albans, UK · Wikipedia - 04Building Research Establishment
The Building Research Establishment is a centre of building science in the United Kingdom, owned by charitable organisation the BRE Trust. It is a former UK government national laboratory, previously called Building Research Station, that was privatised in 1997.
5.7 km · centre of building science in the United Kingdom, owned by charitable organisation the BRE Trust · Wikipedia - 05Sopwell Priory
Sopwell Priory was a Benedictine nunnery founded around 1140 on the site of an ancient hermitage in Sopwell, Hertfordshire, England. After the Dissolution, the priory was torn down and a Tudor manor house constructed in its place.
1.5 km · monastery in Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Roman Theatre of Verulamium
The Roman Theatre at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England is an excavated site within the Roman walled city of Verulamium. Although there are other Roman theatres in Britain, the one at Verulamium is claimed to be the only example of its kind, being a theatre with a stage rather than an amphitheatre.
500 m · ancient Roman theatre in St Albans, England · Wikipedia - 07Parish Church of St Mary
St Mary's Church is an active Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Redbourn, Hertfordshire, England. The building is Grade I listed.
5.9 km · church in Redbourn, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Gorhambury House
Gorhambury House is a Palladian-style house near St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. It was built between 1777 and 1784 to replace Old Gorhambury House, which was left to fall into ruin.
2.5 km · country house in St Michael, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09All Saints Pastoral Centre
All Saints Pastoral Centre is a complex of buildings at London Colney on the southern outskirts of St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. It was built as a convent for the Anglican Society of All Saints Sisters of the Poor.
5.6 km · building in London Colney, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10The Cock
The Cock is a public house in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. The grade II listed building dates back to around 1600 and has some timber framing.
1.3 km · public house in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Verulamium
- Airports
- London Luton (LTN), 14 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 32 km · London Stansted (STN), 43 km
- Stations
- St Albans City railway station, 1.8 km · St Albans Abbey railway station, 1 km · Bricket Wood railway station, 4.9 km · Park Street railway station, 2.9 km · How Wood railway station, 3.7 km
- London, Essex → Verulamium31 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £3.5–5
- London → Verulamium31 km · quickest by road, 1h 14m · £3.5–5
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Verulamium133 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £14–18
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Verulamium
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Verulamium. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Verulamium – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Verulamium
Verulamium is 22 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- St Albanscity and unparished area in southern Hertfordshire, England1.4 km
- London Colneyvillage in Hertfordshire, England, UK4.6 km
- Sandridgevillage in Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom4.9 km
- Bedmondvillage in Hertfordshire, England5 km
- St Stephencivil parish in the City of St Albans district in Hertfordshire, England1.7 km
- St Michaelcivil parish in Hertfordshire, England, UK2.2 km