Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CARROW

CARROW, a hamlet in Warden parish, Northumberland; on the Roman wall, 4¾ miles N of Haydon-Bridge. Carrowburgh here was the Procolitia on the Wall, where the Batavian cohort was stationed; and two Roman altars have been found.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a hamlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Warden CP/AP       Northumberland AncC
Place: Carraw

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