Venta Belgarum 144 acres (58 ha), making it among the largest towns in Roman Britain by surface area. The city had many fine Roman town houses or "domus", as well as public buildings and Roman temples. Like many other Roman towns however, Winchester began to decline in the later fourth century. The forum-basilica appears to have included a temple to Jupiter, Juno and Minerva along with an accompanying Jupiter Column. Elsewhere, there was a Romano-British style temple dedicated to the Celtic horse goddess, Epona. There was a large Romano-British cemetery to the north of the town, at Lankhills, and another to the
Oakhanger, Hampshire Oakhanger, Hampshire Oakhanger is a village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Bordon, which lies east, of the B3004 road. The village is part of the parish of Selborne, which covers an area of . The nearest railway station is Alton, which is northwest of the village, although Oakhanger formerly had its own military railway station, Oakhanger Halt railway station on the Longmoor Military Railway, until its closure. A Roman road passed through Oakhanger although no traces of it remain today. The first mention of the village came from a charter dating to the