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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.
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 ...
11th – 14th centuries. The site on which the castle stands was used in the Iron Age, in the Roman period, by the Saxons, Normans, Tudors and also in the medieval period. This is because its position on elevated ground provides clear views of the Welland Valley from a strong defensible location. William the Conqueror ordered the construction ...
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 ...
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."
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 ...
Althorp. Coordinates: 52°16′49″N 1°00′07″W. Althorp in July 2006. Althorp ( popularly pronounced / ˈɔːlθɔːrp / AWL-thorp) is a Grade I listed stately home and estate in the civil parish of Althorp, in West Northamptonshire, England of about 13,000 acres (5,300 ha). [a] By road it is about 6 miles (9.7 km) northwest of the county ...
Piddington Roman Villa. Categories: Villas in Roman Britain. Buildings and structures in Northamptonshire. History of Northamptonshire. Former populated places in Northamptonshire.