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St Albans Cathedral

St Albans St Albans is a modest city in southern Hertfordshire, and a bustling town on market days. It is an ancient town, with predecessors in a Roman city and an Iron Age town before it. Today's St Albans is dominated by its Cathedral, which stands on the steep hill above the River Ver and around which site the mediæval town grew. The town takes its name and original from the Abbey of Saint Alban, built on the site of the martyrdom in 308 of Alban, the first British Christian martyr, and the town is not therefore built on the site of ancient Verulamium, but on the other side of the river. (Read more)