Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for OUTCHESTER

OUTCHESTER, a township in Bambrough parish, Northumberland; on the river Warn, near its outlet into Budle bay, 2½ miles E by S of Belford. Acres, 1,044. Pop., 116. Houses, 18. The Castrum Ulterius of the Romans was here; and remains exist of a square Roman camp, with a double rampart and a wide fosse.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Northumberland AncC
Place: Outchester

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