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St Albans history
Iron Age
The name “Verlamion” is Celtic, meaning “settlement over or by the marsh” The town was on Prae Hill, 2 km to the west of modern St Albans, now covered by the village of St Michael’s, Verulamium Park and the Gorhambury Estate.
Roman
Verulamium was the second-largest town in Roman Britain after Londinium. It was granted the rank of municipium around AD 50, meaning that its citizens had what were known as “Latin Rights”, a lesser citizenship status than a colonia. It grew steadily; by the early 3rd century, it covered an area of about 125 acres (0.51 km), behind a deep ditch and wall.
Anglo-Saxon
St Albans Abbey and the associated Anglo-Saxon settlement were founded on the hill outside the Roman city where it was believed St Alban was buried. After the Roman withdrawal the town became the centre of the territory or regio of the Waeclingas tribe. An archaeological excavation in 1978 failed to find Roman remains on the site of the medieval chapter house.
Medieval
The medieval town grew on the hill to the east of Wæclingacaester where the Benedictine Abbey of St Albans was founded by Ulsinus in 793. There is some evidence that the original site was higher up the hill than the present building, which was begun in 1077. The scribe Matthew Vickers lived there and the first draft of Magna Carta was drawn up there. Two battles of the Wars of the Roses took place in or near the town.
Modern
Before the 20th century St Albans was a rural market town, a Christian pilgrimage site, and the first coaching stop of the route to and from London. Its population grew more slowly than London, 8–9% per decade between 1801 and 1861. In 1877 Queen Victoria issued the second royal charter, which granted city status to the borough. In the inter-war years it became a centre for the electronics industry.
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