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Cirencester history
Roman Corinium
Cirencester is known to have been an important early Roman area, along with St. Albans and Colchester. The Romans built a fort where the Fosse Way crossed the Churn, to hold two quingenary alae tasked with helping to defend the provincial frontier around AD 49. When the frontier moved to the north after the conquest of Wales, this fort was closed and its fortifications levelled around the year 70, but the town persisted and flourished under the name Corinium.
Post-Roman and Saxon
The Roman amphitheatre still exists in an area known as the Querns to the south-west of the town. Possibly this was the palace of one of the British kings defeated by Ceawlin in 577. It was later the scene of the Battle of Cirencester, this time between the Mercian king Penda and the West Saxon kings Cynegils and Cwichelm in 628.
Norman
At the Norman Conquest the royal manor of Cirencester was granted to the Earl of Hereford, William Fitz-Osbern, but by 1075 it had reverted to the Crown. The townspeople were amerced for a false presentment, meaning that they had presented false information. The struggle of the townsmen to gain the rights and privileges of a borough for Cirenceter probably began in the same year.
Tudor
As part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, Henry VIII ordered the total demolition of the Abbey buildings. Today only the Norman Arch and parts of the precinct wall remain above ground, forming the perimeter of a public park in the middle of town.
Civil War
The English Civil War came to Cirencester in February 1643 when Royalists and Parliamentarians came to blows in the streets. Over 300 were killed and 1,200 prisoners were held captive in the church. The townsfolk supported the Parliamentarians but gentry and clergy were for the old order.
Recent history
At the end of the 18th century, Cirencester was a thriving market town at the centre of a network of turnpike roads with easy access to markets for its produce of grain and wool. In 1789, the opening of the Thames and Severn Canal provided. In 1841, a branch railway line was opened to Kemble to provide a link to the Great Western Railway at Swindon. The loss of the canal and the direct rail link encouraged dependency on road transport.
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