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Cirencester

Cirencester is a picturesque market town in the , in the county of . It's an ancient market town with traditional Cotswold buildings and thriving shopping centre.
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  • Type: Town with 17,200 residents
  • Description: market town in east Gloucestershire, England
  • Also known as: “Cicester”, “Cirencester, Gloucestershire”, and “Corinium”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Corinium Museum and Cirencester Amphitheatre.

Museum
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The , in the town of Cirencester in , has a large collection of objects found in and around the locality. The bulk of the exhibits are from the Roman town of Corinium Dobunnorum, but the museum includes material from across the Cotswold District as early as the Neolithic and all the way up to Victorian times.

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was a Roman amphitheatre in Cirencester, , England. Its remains are scheduled as an ancient monument. Archaeological digs have uncovered the earthworks, revealing the outline of the construction, which is still visible, with the banking reaching 25 feet from the bottom of the arena.

Church
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The Church of St. John Baptist, Cirencester is a in the Church of England in Cirencester, , England. It is a Grade I listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stratton.

Village
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is a village, ward and former civil parish about 22 miles from , now in the parish of Cirencester, in the Cotswold district, in the county of , England.

Cirencester

Latitude
51.7171° or 51° 43′ 2″ north
Longitude
-1.9662° or 1° 57′ 58″ west
Population
17,200
Elevation
367 feet (112 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB CIR
Open location code
9C3WP28M+RG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 15905868
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2652995
Wiki­data ID
Q852772
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Cirencester” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سيرينسيستر”
  • Basque: “Cirencester”
  • Belarusian: “Сайрэнсестэр”
  • Belarusian: “Сайрэнсэстэр”
  • Breton: “Cirencester”
  • Breton: “Corinium”
  • Bulgarian: “Сайрънсестър”
  • Catalan: “Cirencester”
  • Cebuano: “Cirencester”
  • Chinese: “Cirencester”
  • Chinese: “賽倫塞斯特”
  • Chinese: “賽倫賽斯特”
  • Chinese: “赛伦塞斯特”
  • Cornish: “Kargyrn”
  • Czech: “Cirencester”
  • Dutch: “Cirencester”
  • Estonian: “Cirencester”
  • Finnish: “Cirencester”
  • French: “Cirencester”
  • German: “Cirencester”
  • Hebrew: “סירנסטר”
  • Hungarian: “Cirencester”
  • Indonesian: “Cirencester”
  • Irish: “Cirencester”
  • Italian: “Cirencester”
  • Italian: “Corinium”
  • Japanese: “コリニアム”
  • Japanese: “サイレンセスター (グロスターシャー)”
  • Japanese: “サイレンセスター”
  • Korean: “사이런세스터”
  • Korean: “시런세스터”
  • Ladin: “Cirencester”
  • Latin: “Ciricestria”
  • Latvian: “Sairensestera”
  • Lithuanian: “Sairensesteris”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cirencester”
  • Macedonian: “Сајренсестер”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cirencester”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cirencester”
  • Norwegian: “Cirencester”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cirenceaster”
  • Persian: “سایرن‌سستر”
  • Polish: “Cirencester”
  • Portuguese: “Cirencester”
  • Romanian: “Cirencester”
  • Russian: “Сайренсестер”
  • Scots: “Cirencester”
  • Slovak: “Cirencester”
  • Slovenian: “Cirencester”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سایرن‌سستر”
  • Spanish: “Cirencester”
  • Swedish: “Cirencester”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Cirencester”
  • Ukrainian: “Сайренсестер”
  • Ukrainian: “Чиренчестер”
  • Urdu: “سائرنسیسٹر”
  • Volapük: “Cirencester”
  • Welsh: “Caerceri”
  • Welsh: “Cirencester”
  • “Cirencester”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Cirencester”. Photo: slrjester, CC BY 2.0.