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Hackleton, Northamptonshire. Coordinates. 52°11′02″N 0°49′26″W / . 52.184°N 0.824°W. / 52.184; -0.824. Map Ref: SP802545. Piddington Roman Villa is the remains of a large Roman villa at Piddington, Northamptonshire, about 6 miles (9.7 km) south-east of Northampton, a county in the East Midlands of England.
Piddington Roman Villa. Categories: Villas in Roman Britain. Buildings and structures in Northamptonshire. History of Northamptonshire. Former populated places in Northamptonshire.
52.263422°N 1.138252°W. / 52.263422; -1.138252. Borough Hill Roman villa is located on the north tip of Borough Hill, a prominent hill near the town of Daventry in Northamptonshire. [1] The villa’s remains lie within the ramparts of an Iron Age fortress which covers the summit of the hill. The remains of the Roman villa were discovered in ...
Apethorpe Palace. Apethorpe Palace (pronounced Ap-thorp ), formerly known as "Apethorpe Hall", is a Grade I listed [1] country house, dating to the 15th century, close to Apethorpe, Northamptonshire. It was a "favourite royal residence " for James I. [2] The house is acknowledged as one of the finest remaining examples of a Jacobean stately ...
Lactodurum. Coordinates: 52.131°N 0.989°W. Lactodurum was a town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Towcester, located in the English county of Northamptonshire . Towcester lays claim to being the oldest town in Northamptonshire and possibly, because of the antiquity of recent Iron Age finds in the town, to be one of the ...
As a shire Northamptonshire was probably of Danish origin, representing in the 10th century the area which owed allegiance to Northampton as a political and administrative centre. In 921 this area extended to the River Welland, the present northern limit of the county. In the 11th century Northamptonshire was included in Tostig 's northern ...
Domus. In ancient Rome, the domus ( pl.: domūs, genitive: domūs or domī) was the type of town house occupied by the upper classes and some wealthy freedmen during the Republican and Imperial eras. [1] It was found in almost all the major cities throughout the Roman territories. The modern English word domestic comes from Latin domesticus ...
The Roman army first arrived in the late 40s AD and constructed a fort for the 14 th legion south of Wroxeter. A decade later, that fort was replaced by a new one built less than a mile north.