List of Latin place names in Britain

This list includes places in Great Britain (including neighbouring islands such as the Isle of Man), some of which were part of the Roman Empire, or were later given Latin place names in historical references.

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, German scholars in particular have made significant contributions to the study of historical place names, or Ortsnamenkunde.

For genealogists and historians of pre-Modern Europe, knowing alternative names of places is vital to extracting information from both public and private records.

Even specialists in this field point out, however, that the information can be easily taken out of context, since there is a great deal of repetition of place names throughout Europe; reliance purely on apparent connections should therefore be tempered with valid historical methodology.

One of these, Colonia Agrippinensis, retains the name today in the form of Cologne (from French, German Köln).