Viroconium

VIROCO´NIUM (Οὐιροκόνιον, Ptol. 2.3.19), a town of the Cornavii in Britannia Romana, on the road from Deva to Londinium, with a by-road from Maridunum. (Itin. Ant. pp. 482, 484.) It is the town called Urioconium in another route of the Itinerary (p. 469). Now Wroxeter, with ruins and antiquities. (Camden, p. 652.)

or Urioconium. Now Wroxeter; a town in Britain on the roads from Deva (Chester) to Londinum and to Glevum (Gloucester). It stood at the confluence of the Terne with the Severn, and here Ostorius Scapula fortified a camp for the Fourteenth Legion as a defence for the Welsh border (Tac. Ann. xii. 31; cf. Ptol.ii. 3, 19).