Limes Britannicus rapidly to the west and north. Many regions of Britain continued to be governed by the Roman model even after the Romans left, but this practice soon ceased with the continuous encroachment of Anglo-Saxon renegades. With the collapse of the old administrative districts into independent small kingdoms, the jointly maintained provincial army also lost its Roman character. Four years after the Roman invasion, the conquered territory extended roughly as far as a line from Exeter " (Isca Dumnoniorum) " to Lincoln " (Lindum Colonia)", an important intra-Britannic transport hub. Around 55 AD the main camp of the "Legio II Augusta"
Southern England as with most geographical regions, people sometimes debate the boundaries. In the west, Southern England is generally taken to include Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire; in central Southern England, the counties of Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire; to the east, Essex and the counties of East Anglia (Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk). Despite these definitions, the northern boundary is generally taken to correspond to an imaginary line from the Severn Estuary to the Wash (or expressed in terms of towns, from Gloucester to King's Lynn). Southern England Southern England, or the South of England, also known as the South, refers roughly to the southern