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Metchley Fort

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Metchley Fort was a Roman fort in what is now Birmingham, England. [1]

22 relations: Ancient Rome, Birmingham, Edgbaston, England, Fortification, France, Icknield Street, List of mayors of Birmingham, Malvern Hills, Mick Aston, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Roman conquest of Britain, Roman roads, Scheduled monument, Severn Valley, Time Team, University of Birmingham, University of Birmingham Medical School, University railway station (England), Victor Skipp, Vicus, Warwickshire.

Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Edgbaston

Edgbaston is an affluent suburban area of central Birmingham, England, curved around the southwest of the city centre.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Fortification

A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare; and is also used to solidify rule in a region during peacetime.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Icknield Street

Icknield Street or Ryknild Street is a Roman road in England, with a route roughly south-west to north-east.

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List of mayors of Birmingham

This is a list of the Mayors and Lord Mayors of Birmingham in the West Midlands of England.

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Malvern Hills

The Malvern Hills are a range of hills in the English counties of Worcestershire, Herefordshire and a small area of northern Gloucestershire, dominating the surrounding countryside and the towns and villages of the district of Malvern.

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Mick Aston

Professor Michael Antony Aston, FSA (1 July 1946 – 24 June 2013) was an English archaeologist who specialised in Early Medieval landscape archaeology.

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Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is an NHS and military hospital in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, situated very close to the University of Birmingham.

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Roman conquest of Britain

The Roman conquest of Britain was a gradual process, beginning effectively in AD 43 under Emperor Claudius, whose general Aulus Plautius served as first governor of Roman Britain (Britannia).

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Roman roads

Roman roads (Latin: viae Romanae; singular: via Romana meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.

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Scheduled monument

In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a "nationally important" archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change.

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Severn Valley

The Severn Valley is a rural area of mid-western England, through which the River Severn runs and the Severn Valley Railway steam heritage line operates, starting at its northernmost point in Bridgnorth, Shropshire and running south for 16 miles (26 km) to Ribbesford, a few miles south of Bewdley, Worcestershire in the Wyre Forest.

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Time Team

Time Team was a British television series that originally aired on Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2014.

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University of Birmingham

The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a public research university located in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

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University of Birmingham Medical School

The University of Birmingham Medical School is one of Britain's largest and oldest medical schools with over 400 medical, 70 pharmacy, 140 biomedical science and 130 nursing students graduating each year.

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University railway station (England)

University railway station is a railway station serving the University of Birmingham, Birmingham Women's Hospital, and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the West Midlands of England.

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Victor Skipp

Victor Henry Thomas Skipp (1925 – 24 December 2010) was an English local historian, art collector and amateur philosopher, who left his estate to Kettle's Yard in Cambridge.

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Vicus

In Ancient Rome, the vicus (plural vici) was a neighborhood or settlement.

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Warwickshire

Warwickshire (abbreviated Warks) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metchley_Fort

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