Wroxeter

Wroxeter, a village of Shropshire (pop. 500), on the Severn, 6 miles SE. of Shrewsbury. It occupies the site of the Roman Uriconium, an important station on Watling Street (q.v.). At Uriconium part of the wall (once 3 miles in circumference) with ditch and rampart still exists, and the place has yielded many and various Roman remains, excavations having been carried on during 1859-67. See T. Wright, Uriconium (1872).