Columbia Encyclopedia entry: Silchester
Silchestersĭl'chĭstər, village, Hampshire, S England. It is noted for the ruins of the Roman-British town Calleva Atrebatum. The outside walls (2,760 yd/2,524 m in circumference), forum, amphitheater, and entire plan of the city, including baths and several temples, were revealed through excavations beginning in the 1890s. Small articles were removed to Reading Museum.
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Silchester is a village and civil parish in the English county of Hampshire. It is best known for the adjacent archaeological site and Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum, which was first occupied by the Romans in about AD 45 and includes what is thought to be the best-preserved Roman wall in Great Britain.
Silchester is located at, south-west of Reading and north of Basingstoke. The village is sometimes referred to as Silchester Common, as that is where it stands, some distance from the parish church and the old manor just within the eastern walls of the Roman town.
Silchester is a civil parish with an elected parish council. Silchester...more »
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