The story of the settlement it serves can be traced back archaeologically into the Iron Age. By the early 1st century AD, it had become an important centre of the Catuvellauni tribe and then developed ...
The rebels burned Camulodunum (Colchester), Verulamium (St Albans ... Tacitus estimated that they killed around 70,000 Romans and pro-Roman Britons and slaughtered the Roman Ninth Legion.
But Boudicca's forces rout the Roman soldiers and then they pursue ... thus ensuring that Londinium suffers the same fate as Camulodunum. Verulamium - modern-day Saint Albans - follows.
Verulamium Park in St Albans, which was once the site of the third-largest city in Roman Britain, was used for scenes in the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory prequel, starring Timothée Chalamet ...