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Welwyn Roman Baths

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The Welwyn Roman Baths are a Roman ruin preserved under the A1(M) just north of modern-day Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England. [1]

16 relations: Ancient Rome, Archaeology, Caldarium, Controlled-access highway, Department for Transport, Frigidarium, Hertfordshire, Hypocaust, Mill Green Museum, Opus signinum, River Mimram, Roman roads, Tepidarium, Thermae, Welwyn, Welwyn Garden City.

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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Archaeology

Archaeology, or archeology, is the study of humanactivity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Caldarium

Caldarium from the Roman Baths at Bath, England. The floor has been removed to reveal the empty space where the hot air flowed through to heat the floor. A caldarium (also called a calidarium, cella caldaria or cella coctilium) was a room with a hot plunge bath, used in a Roman bath complex.

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Controlled-access highway

A controlled-access highway is a type of highway which has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow and ingress/egress regulated.

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Department for Transport

The Department for Transport (DfT) is the government department responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that have not been devolved.

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Frigidarium

A frigidarium is a large cold pool at the Roman baths.

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Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire (often abbreviated Herts) is a county in southern England, bordered by Bedfordshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the north-east, Essex to the east, Buckinghamshire to the west and Greater London to the south.

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Hypocaust

A hypocaust (Latin hypocaustum) is a system of central heating in a building that produces and circulates hot air below the floor of a room, and may also warm the walls with a series of pipes through which the hot air passes.

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Mill Green Museum

Mill Green Museum is a working thousand year old watermill (in the Doomsday Book, 1066) in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.

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Opus signinum

Opus signinum ('cocciopesto' in modern Italian) is a building material used in ancient Rome.

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River Mimram

The River Mimram is a river in Hertfordshire, England.

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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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Tepidarium

The tepidarium was the warm (tepidus) bathroom of the Roman baths heated by a hypocaust or underfloor heating system.

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Thermae

In ancient Rome, thermae (from Greek θερμός thermos, "hot") and balneae (from Greek βαλανεῖον balaneion) were facilities for bathing.

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Welwyn

Welwyn is a village and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England.

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Welwyn Garden City

Welwyn Garden City is a town in Hertfordshire, England.

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References

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

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