Please give the aproximate age rounded to the nearest 100-years if the exact foundation date is not known precisely. Thanks.
2007-02-27 22:45:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
I don't think you are going to get a definitive answer to that question because a few towns claim that honour. Here's another one: Abingdon in Oxfordshire, which claims to be the oldest continually-inhabited town.
If you chat to local dignitaries, they will tell you that it's been proven the site of the town has been continually inhabited since the early iron age. In Britain, the Iron Age began in about 400BC, so it would make Abingdon about 2,400 years old - give or take a hundred years.
(And the locals show few signs of having evolved since that period!)
2007-02-28 00:59:54 · answer #1 · answered by Stealthbong 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Colchester is the oldest recorded town
2007-02-27 23:21:59 · answer #2 · answered by Miss RoZy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carmarthen, Wales, pre-dates Colchester by a couple of years.
2007-02-27 23:00:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't know the definitive answer but I reckon it could be Romford or Dagenham judging by all the Neanderthals walking round there!
2007-02-28 16:49:28 · answer #4 · answered by Adrian W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
colchester , essex , the oldest recorded town in the uk ::: original name being "camulodunum" first recrded in AD77
2007-02-27 22:55:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Ashburton is one of the oldest. Not sure though. Also, Chester.
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2007-02-27 22:56:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it could york or bath.
2007-02-28 05:38:57 · answer #7 · answered by pixie007 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋