Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Portgate

Portgate, township, Lee St John par., Northumberland, at the intersection of the Roman Wall and Watling Street, 4 m. NE. of Hexham, 664 ac., pop. 72.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Lee St John CP/AP       Portgate CP/Tn       Northumberland AncC
Place: Portgate

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