Which English city has an ancient ruin that could, possibly, take it s name from a Religious community, but most likely takes its name from an early legal system?

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Leicester. The ruin is the Jewry Wall. The Jewry Wall in Leicester, England is the substantial ruined wall of a public building of Roman Leicester. The wall is nearly 2000 years old, and measures 23 metres (75 ft) long, 8 metres (26 ft) high and 2.5 metres (8 ft) thick. The name of the wall (first recorded in c.1665) is unlikely to relate to Leicester's medieval Jewish community, which was never large, and which was expelled from the town by Simon de Montfort in 1231. One theory, which has achieved widespread currency, is that the name bears some relation to the 24 jurats of early medieval Leicester, the senior members of the Corporation of Leicester, who were said to have met in the town churchyard - possibly that of St. Nicholas. However, it seems more likely that the name in fact derives from a broader folk-belief attributing mysterious ruins of unknown origin to Jews. Such attributions are found at a number of other sites elsewhere in England, and in other parts of Europe. (From Wikipedia, cut-and-paste) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewry_Wall Aug 14 11, 8:36 PM