Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Rudchester (or Rouchester)

Rudchester (or Rouchester), township, Ovingham par., Northumberland, on the Roman Wall, 8½ miles N W. of Newcastle on Tyne, 647 ac., pop. 42; a Roman station was here, and has yielded numerous relics.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Ovingham AP/CP       Rudchester CP/Tn       Northumberland AncC
Place names: ROUCHESTER     |     RUDCHESTER     |     RUDCHESTER OR ROUCHESTER
Place: Rudchester

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