The _colonia_ of Camulodunum (Colchester) and the _municipium_ of Verulamium (St.Albans), both in the south-east of the island, were established soon after the Claudian conquest.

The _colonia_ of Lindum (Lincoln) was probably founded in the early Flavian period (A.D.

70-80), when the Ninth Legion, hitherto at Lincoln, was probably pushed forward to York.
The _colonia_ at Glevum (Gloucester) arose in A.D.

96-98, as an inscription seems definitely to attest.

Lastly, the _colonia_ at Eburacum (York) must have grown up during the second or the early third century, under the ramparts of the legionary fortress, though separated from it by the intervening river Ouse.[1] Each of these five towns had, doubtless, its dependent _ager attributus_, which may have been as large as an average English county, and each provided the local government for its territory.[2] That implies a definitely Roman form of local government for a considerable area--a larger area, certainly, than received such organization in northern Gaul.