Aldborough Roman Site
📍 Front St, Aldborough, York YO51 9ES, UK
About Aldborough Roman Site
Aldborough Roman Site offers a captivating journey into Yorkshire's Roman past, located in the picturesque village of Aldborough near York. Once the Roman town of Isurium Brigantum, this English Heritage site allows visitors to explore the remains of a significant Roman settlement, including remarkably preserved mosaic floors and fragments of the ancient defensive walls.
With an excellent Google rating of 4.2/5 stars, the site is highly praised by visitors. Reviewers frequently highlight the "incredibly well-preserved mosaics" and the informative "small museum" which provides rich historical context. The staff are consistently described as "amazing" and "very knowledgeable," enriching the experience with engaging talks and insights. The site is also noted as being very dog-friendly and includes facilities such as toilets and food options.
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Opening hours for Aldborough Roman Site are not provided in the available data. Please check the official website for current timings. The site does not offer wheelchair accessible parking or an accessible entrance. For convenience, NFC payments are accepted on-site.
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📍 Front St, Aldborough, York YO51 9ES, UK
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Showing 5 of 251 reviews from Google Maps.Last updated 7 February 2026.
Staff are amazing and very informative, started off with a talk about where to find the mosaics and the boundaries on which we can walk, as private gardens do back onto the site. It's actually quite amazing when you walk across the field to the mosaics, that you are probably walking across hidden artifacts. Kids enjoyed looking for the animal markers with their Latin names on them. Parking, we parked on the road, no car park. The entrance to the site is next door to a residential home a sign post does point to the entrance so you can't miss it. Steps going up to the entrance. Toilets available. Not sure if they have a wheelchair friendly access so best to call first before heading out.
Really great little museum with very knowledgeable member of staff at hand. Very dog friendly. Toilets, food. Incredibly preserved mosaics. Well worth a visit and amble round the stunning village of Aldborough which has the most immaculate gardens.
Not much remains of the Roman walls, just a few patches of foundations, but there are a pair of incredibly well preserved mosaic floors and the small museum at the entrance gives a lot of interesting information about the history of the town. The lady working there when we visited had a lot of knowledge and insight into the history of the town and the excavations that took place.
Went here October 2025 as part of a drive around ancient sites. Unfortunately is was closed with a sign saying open by prior request. Try the Devils Arrows less than a mile away at Boroughbridge. 2nd tallest in the UK and taller than Stonehenge.
It is closed, beware! We drove specifically to come here and sad to see it closed, this needs to be on the google information because most people dont visit the website because most places aren't closed like this. Unfortunate because we are from Arizona and wont be back