Boxmoor House Roman villa

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Earthworks onlybanks, ditches and platforms — read the ground, not walls

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Boxmoor House Roman villa preserves the earthworks of a former Roman villa in Hertfordshire. It is one of five Roman villas the Albion Guide charts in the county. The nearest other Roman villa is Verulamium wall and ditch, 9.8 km to the east. Hemel Hempstead Station is under a kilometre away.

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