Viroconium Cornoviorum
（重定向自Uricon）
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![Roman ruins at Viroconium Cornoviorum, photographed during excavation by Francis Bedford and digitally restored.](/Images/godic/202502/19/Excavation_at_Uriconium_by_Francis_Bedford21911.jpg")
![The recreation of a Roman town house at Viroconium](/Images/godic/202502/19/Wroxetervilla1911.jpg")
Viroconium or Uriconium, formally Viroconium Cornoviorum, was a Roman town, one corner of which is now occupied by Wroxeter, a small village in Shropshire, England, about 5 miles (8.0 km) east-south-east of Shrewsbury. At its peak, Viroconium is estimated to have been the 4th-largest Roman settlement in Britain, a civitas with a population of more than 15000. The settlement probably lasted until the end of the 7th century or the beginning of the 8th. Extensive remains can still be seen.