Shipton Moyne retain its original Latin name - most others having been renamed by the Saxons - passes through Shipton Moyne. Its route takes it from Exeter (Isca Dumnoniorum) in southwest England, to Lincoln (Lindum) in the East Midlands, via Bath(Aquae Sulis), Cirencester (Corinium) and Leicester (Ratae Coritanorum). Shipton Moyne Shipton Moyne is a village and civil parish in the Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England located approximately 105 miles west of London. Its nearest towns are Tetbury (3 miles north), also in Gloucestershire and Malmesbury (3 miles southeast) in Wiltshire. The population taken at the 2011 census was 265. The name Shipton, recorded
Isca Augusta River Usk. The suffix "Augusta" appears in the Ravenna Cosmography and was an honorific title taken from the legion stationed there. The place is commonly referred to as "Isca Silurum" to differentiate it from Isca Dumnoniorum and because it lay in the territory of the Silures tribe. However, there is no evidence that this form was used in Roman times. The later name, "Caerleon", is derived from the Welsh for "fortress of the legion". Isca was founded in AD 74 or 75 during the final campaigns by Governor Sextus Julius Frontinus against the fierce native tribes of western Britain, notably