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n. A market town in east Gloucestershire, England, the site of the ancient Corinium of the Dobunni
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Cirencester (, occasionally ; see below for more variations) is a market town in east Gloucestershire, England, 93 miles (150 km) west northwest of London. Cirencester lies on the River Churn, a tributary of the River Thames, and is the largest town in the Cotswold District. It is the home of the Royal Agricultural University, the oldest agricultural college in the English-speaking world founded in 1840. The town's Corinium Museum is well known for its extensive Roman collection. The Roman name for the town was Corinium, which is thought to have been associated with the ancient British tribe of the Dobunni, having the same root word as the River Churn. The earliest known reference to the town was by Ptolemy in 150AD.
Cirencester is twinned with Itzehoe, Germany.
Cirencester was a parliamentary constituency in Gloucestershire. From 1571 until 1885, it was a parliamentary borough, which returned two Member of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom until 1868, and one member between 1868 and 1885. In 1885 the borough was abolished but the name was transferred to the county constituency in which it stood; this constituency was abolished for the 1918 general election.
Usage examples of "cirencester".
But she lives near Cirencester and I know you are going over that way tomorrow with Mrs.
We then struck across the country, into the great Cirencester road, and made such haste, that we spent the next evening, save one, in London.
It then sped on to Cirencester where the horses were changed and a governess and her two young charges took their leave.
Cross-country to Cirencester and then up the A435 to Cheltenham, then turn off at Eckington.
But when he reached it he did not turn left towards Tewkesbury and the roads that led homeward, but right, towards Cirencester.