Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Rochester

Rochester, township and vil. (High Rochester), Elsdon par., Northumberland; township, 21,819 ac., pop. 339; vil., 5 miles NW. of Otterburn; P.O.; occupies the site of a Roman station, and has yielded numerous Roman antiquities.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "township and village"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Elsdon AP/CP       Rochester CP/Tn       Northumberland AncC
Place: Rochester

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