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Rochester in Kent, England was a Roman town and there was a Roman fort there but the castle as it is now was not started until some 500 years after the Britain ceased to be part of The Roman Empire.

Rochester Castle is more usually described as a Norman Castle.

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It was first occupied in the Neolithic era but soon after the Romans invaded, so it could be classed as Roman occupied.

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