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The Great Britain Guide

Roman villas · South East England

Roman villas of Britain in 5 days

Five of Britain's best-preserved Roman country houses.

Roman Britain saw the construction of perhaps a thousand villas — palatial country estates owned by Romanised Britons and continental settlers. The five with the best surviving mosaics, hypocausts and excavated walls run from Sussex to Yorkshire and reward a leisurely week of driving and walking. All have on-site interpretation; most are run by English Heritage or the National Trust.

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