Silchester
Proper noun
Meaning
Silchester
A village and civil parish in Basingstoke and Deane district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6262).
Examples
The next Roman bridges upstream were at Pontes ( Staines ) on the Devil's Highway between Londinium and Calleva ( Silchester ).
The Romans, or rather the Romano-British, built another major road that integrated Wessex, running eastwards from Exeter through Dorchester to Winchester and Silchester and on to London.
Turning over the basilica at Silchester to industrial uses in the late 3rd century, doubtless officially condoned, marks an early stage in the de-urbanisation of Roman Britain.