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Mr. H. BuRRows: 'The Grandeur that was Rome'

on 2ZY Manchester

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THE long arm of Rome reached all over Britain, but the only village in Lancashiro that hears really tangible evidence of Roman occupation is that on tho banks of the Ribble that appears in Domesday Book as Ribelcastre. Its modern name is Ribchester, and recent excavations have proved even more conclusively than licforo the fact that it was once the site of a Roman camp.

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