Map of Roman Cities and Roads in Ancient Britain Iron age Britain was dominated by one form of man made structure, that being the Roman road. Arguably the two Roman walls: the Antonine wall and Hadrian’s wall looked more impressive to the naked eye and the garrisons that became towns lik...
Keld is a village in the English county of North Yorkshire. It is in Swaledale, and the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The name derives from the Viking word Kelda meaning a spring and the village was once called Appletre Kelde – the spring near the appl
Jorvik Viking Centre is a museum and visitor…Places in the AreaDringhouses Suburb Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0. Dringhouses is a suburb of York, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.Clifton Suburb Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0. Clifton is a suburb of York in ...
Discover the former Viking settlement of Wick, once the herring capital of Europe and now the principal town in the far north of the mainland. There are three castles to discover nearby; the remains of the Castle of Old Wick which sits atop the edge of the cliffs half a mile south of ...
She saw the map as an attempt to make fools of the Nazis- who apart from being generally arrogant and brutal, in 1938 closed down the Jesuit college in Austria where Fischer was living in retirement- by faking proof of the Viking (blond Aryan hero-type) voyages to mainland (N.B. Apart...
England (incl. Wales): Historic Counties location-map of 1920-21 Football League (66 clubs); Champions: Burnley FC … … By Bill Turianski on the 3rd of August 2020;twitter.com/billsportsmaps. The map shows the Football League in 1920-21, when the first First Division champions were Burn...
Chapel-en-le-Frith is a town and civil parish, in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England. It has been dubbed the "Capital of the Peak", in reference to the Peak District, historically the highland areas between the Saxon lands and the Viking lands. Chapel-en-le-Frith is situated...
Largs is a seaside resort on the Clyde coast of Ayrshire, with a population of 10,900 in 2022. It’s where Viking power in Scotland was broken, at the Battle of Largs in 1263, and the Vikingar Exhibition is the town’s main attraction....
Thynghowe was an important Viking Age open-air assembly place or thing, located at Sherwood Forest, in Nottinghamshire, England. It was lost to history until its rediscovery in 2005 by the husband and wife team of Stuart Reddish and Lynda Mallett, local history enthusiasts.St...
Uyeasound is a village on the Isle of Unst, the northernmost island of the Shetland Islands, Scotland. It takes its name from the neighbouring strait of the same name, which looks over to the Isle of Uyea.