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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.
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.
St Albans is a city located in Hertfordshire, England. [1] ... The Abbots of St Albans diverted Watling Street away from the ruins of Verulamium into the medieval town.
St Albans Museums runs two museums: Verulamium Museum, which tells the story of everyday life in Roman Britain using objects from the excavations of the important Roman Town; and, the St Albans Museum + Gallery, located in the old St Albans Town Hall, which focuses on the history of the town and of Saint Alban. [53]
Money a council earned from the filming of last year's Wonka movie will be used to surface "a well-used but muddy area" of a city park. Verulamium Park in St Albans, which was once the site of the ...
The hilltop located outside Verulamium eventually became the centre of the cult devoted to Alban. It has been claimed (but doubted by some) that a memoria over the execution point and holding the remains of St Alban may have existed at the site from c. 300, possibly earlier. There was certainly a cult centre of St Alban at Verulamium by the ...
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.
St Michael's is built on the site of the Roman basilica of Verulamium. [3] According to the 13th-century chronicler Matthew Paris, in AD 948 Abbot Wulsin (or Ulsinus) of St Alban's Abbey founded a church on each of the three main roads into the town of St Albans, namely St Michael's, St Peter's and St Stephen's, [4] to serve pilgrims coming to venerate the Abbey's shrine of Saint Alban.