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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.
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 ...
Lyveden New Bield (sometimes called New Build) is an unfinished Elizabethan summer house in the parish of Aldwincle in North Northamptonshire, commissioned by Sir Thomas Tresham and now owned by the National Trust. [1] It is a Grade I listed building, classing it as a 'building of exceptional interest.'.
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 ...
Piddington Roman Villa. Categories: Villas in Roman Britain. Buildings and structures in Northamptonshire. History of Northamptonshire. Former populated places in Northamptonshire.
Roman site and museum. Devil's Causeway, Roman road to Berwick upon Tweed. Featherwood Roman Camps, on Dere Street between Chew Green and Bremenium. Habitancum, Roman fort at Risingham. Housesteads (Vercovicium) Hunnum, (also known as Onnum, and with the modern name of Haltonchesters), Roman fort north of Halton.
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.
Mawsley was first planned in 1993 by Northamptonshire County Council, and construction began in 2001. The village is very nearly complete, with a school, doctors surgery and village hall all provided by the developers. "Mawsley was built not far from the site of a medieval lost village of the same name, which went out of use by the 1600s."