Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CARLISLE (Old)

CARLISLE (Old), a locality 2 miles S of Wigton, in Cumberland; the site of the Roman station Olenacum, on the Roman road from Carlisle to Ellenborough. Materials were taken from ancient buildings on it toward the erection of Wigton; and numbers of Roman relics have been found.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a locality"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Cumberland AncC
Place names: CARLISLE     |     CARLISLE OLD     |     OLD CARLISLE
Place: Old Carlisle

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