# Did The Romans Build Aquaducts in Brittania?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 21, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-romans-build-aquaducts-in-brittania/674432 "2013-11-21T15:03:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-romans-build-aquaducts-in-brittania/674432/1 "2013-11-21T15:03:27Z")

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I don’t think I have ever read of any-Londonium was probably big enough to require a large water supply. But Britain has a lot more water than Italy-were the British-Roman cities supplied by rivers and springs?

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**Author:** ![Shmendrik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-the-romans-build-aquaducts-in-brittania/674432/2 "2013-11-21T15:06:41Z")

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Yes.

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