Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Housesteads

Housesteads, Roman station, S. Northumberland, on the Roman wall, 5½ miles NE. of Haltwhistle; is the most interesting and extensive example of Roman work on the wall.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "Roman station"   (ADL Feature Type: "historical sites")
Administrative units: Northumberland AncC
Place: Housesteads

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