Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Verulamium Park in summer. Verulamium Park is a park in St Albans, Hertfordshire. Set in over 100 acres (0.40 km 2) of parkland, Verulamium Park was purchased from the Earl of Verulam in 1929 by the then City Corporation. Today the park is owned and operated by St Albans City and District Council. The park is named after the Roman city of ...
The Verulamium Museum. The Verulamium Museum, part of St Albans Museums, is on a site once occupied by the forum. It is now on the edge of Verulamium Park. The museum contains much information about the town, both as a Roman and Iron Age settlement, plus Roman history in general.
Verulamium Park in St Albans, which was once the site of the third-largest city in Roman Britain, was used for scenes in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel, starring Timothée Chalamet ...
The Hypocaust Museum is a museum at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Situated in Verlamium Park, the museum provides in situ conservation and interpretation of a hypocaust within the walled city of Verulamium. The system heated residential accommodation built around 200 CE. [1] Unlike the hypocaust at Welwyn, it appears not to be linked to baths.
A bird that is rarely seen inland across the UK, has been spotted 38 miles (62 km) from the coast. The yellow-browed warbler was sighted wintering around Verulamium Lake in St Albans, Hertfordshire.
Verulamium Museum is situated in what was once the forum of the walled city of Verulamium, [5] next to Verulamium Park. The museum contains information about the Iron Age and Roman periods of St Albans' history. The later history of the settlement is presented at the St Albans Museum + Gallery. [4]
The town was on Prae Hill, 2 km (1.2 mi) to the west of modern St Albans, now covered by the village of St Michael's, Verulamium Park and the Gorhambury Estate. [3] Although excavations done in 1996 produced finds which include silver coins from the Roman Republic era dating from 90/80 BC.
However, many of its natural features have been compromised as a result of being canalised during the construction of the artificial lakes at Verulamium Park in St Albans in the 1930s following the archaeological excavations of Verulamium by Sir Mortimer Wheeler and his wife Tessa. During the 1960s and 1970s it suffered serious problems as a ...