Roman Baths (Bath) a geological fault (the Pennyquick fault). In 1983 a new spa water bore-hole was sunk, providing a clean and safe supply of spa water for drinking in the Pump Room. Archaeological evidence indicates that the site of the baths may have been a centre of worship used by Celts; the springs were dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva. Geoffrey of Monmouth in his largely fictional "Historia Regum Britanniae" describes how in 836 BC the spring was discovered by the British king Bladud who built the first Moorish baths. Early in the 18th century Geoffrey's obscure
Aquae Albae in Byzacena Aquae Albae in Byzacena Aquae Albae in Byzacena (also typographed Aquæ Albæ in Byzacena) was an Ancient city and bishopric in Roman Africa and remains a Latin Catholic titular see. Its present location is Ain-Beida, in modern Tunisia (which has namesakes, notably in Algeria and Morocco). Aquae Albae was important enough in the Roman province of Byzacena to become one of the many suffragans of its capital Hadrumetum's Metropolitan Archbishop, but was to fade. The diocese was nominally restored in 1933 as a Latin Catholic titular bishopric. It has had the following incumbents, all of the lowest (episcopal) rank :