Which is the oldest city in Britain?

Colchester, Essex Six hand axes have been found that date Colchester back to the Palaeolithic period. The tourist board boasts that this is Britain's oldest recorded town, as Pliny the Elder mentioned it by its Roman name in AD 77.



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Top 10 prettiest towns and villages in the UK overall:
  • Castle Combe, Cotswolds, Wiltshire.
  • Portmeirion, Gwynedd.
  • Beaulieu, Hampshire.
  • Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire.
  • Keswick, Lake District, Cumbria.
  • Bibury, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire.
  • Polperro, Cornwall.
  • St Michael's Mount, Cornwall.


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Rome. Here is a wonderland of ancient, medieval, and modern history, from the Colosseum (almost 2000 years old) to Vatican City, the center of the Roman Catholic Church, and much in between.

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Knap of Howar, Orkney The UK's oldest surviving building is this Neolithic farmstead on the island of Papa Westray in Orkney.

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