The tour
Fifteen stops around the Roman circuit.
The recommended walk starts at Cadw visitor parking on Pound Lane and follows the walls clockwise, then into the excavated centre and the parish church. Stops 1–3 are free.
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Venta Silurum
Venta Silurum
Start at the west side of the market of the Silures — the civilian Roman town of Wales.
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West Gate
Y Porth Gorllewinol
A gate-tower base on the Gloucester–Carmarthen road, still the village street.
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South Town Wall
Mur Deheuol y Dref
Walk the surviving masonry of one of the best-preserved Roman town walls in Britain.
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South Gate
Y Porth Deheuol
The southern portal through the defences, rebuilt in stone in the later town.
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Castle Mound
Twmpath y Castell
A later earthwork on the Roman circuit — a reminder the site kept being reused.
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South-East Corner
Y Gornel Dde-ddwyrain
The wall turns. From here the circuit and the scale of the town start to make sense.
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M48 View
Golygfa’r M48
Look out over the Severn plain and the modern motorway from the Roman rampart.
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East Gate
Y Porth Dwyrain
The other main portal on the decumanus, pairing the west gate you started from.
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The Temple
Y Deml
A Romano-Celtic temple precinct in the heart of the excavated town.
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Forum-Basilica
Fforwm-Basilica
The civic centre — market, law and local government under one roof.
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Shops and Houses
Siopau a Thai
Strip buildings along the street: trade at the front, living space behind.
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Pound Lane Courtyard House
Tŷ Cwrt Lôn y Bont
A substantial courtyard house — how richer townspeople lived inside the walls.
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Courtyard House
Tŷ Cwrt
A second courtyard house on the north-west, showing the town’s later prosperity.
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North Town Wall
Mur Gogleddol y Dref
The northern circuit, still standing high enough to walk beside.
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St Stephen & St Tathan
Sant Steffan a Sant Tathan
Roman stones reused in the parish church — the town’s afterlife in the village.
Stand in their footprints. Hear their story.
First three stops free. Unlock the full circuit for £1.99 — once, in English and Welsh.
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