Cotswold District Gloucestershire England United Kingdom
51.718495,-1.968243
Cirencester
Cirencester ( SY-rən-sest-ər, occasionally SIST-ər; see below for more variations) is a market town and civil parish in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames. It is the eighth largest settlement in Gloucestershire and the largest town within the Cotswolds. It is the home of the Royal Agricultural University, the oldest agricultural college in the English-speaking world, founded in 1840. The town had a population of 20,229 in 2021. The town is 18 miles (29 km) northwest of Swindon, 18 miles (29 km) southeast of Gloucester, 37 miles (60 km) west of Oxford and 39 miles (63 km) northeast of Bristol.
The Roman name for the town was Corinium, which is thought to have been associated with the ancient British tribe of the Dobunni, having the same root word as the River Churn. The earliest known reference to the town was by Ptolemy in AD 150. The town's Corinium Museum has an extensive Roman collection.
Cirencester is twinned with the town of Itzehoe, in the Steinburg region of Germany.
Known in ancient times as: Korinion/Cironium
Periods/Settlements: roman, late-antique, modern
Distance between:
London to Cirencester81 Miles / 130 Kms Liverpool to Cirencester125 Miles / 201 Kms
51.718495,-1.968243