Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Richborough Castle

Richborough Castle, ruin, Ash Next Sandwich par., Kent, on a hill adjacent to river Stour, 1½ mile N. of Sandwich; was the Roman Rutupif, and the principal port of entrance into Britain in the time of the Caesars.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "ruin"   (ADL Feature Type: "historical sites")
Administrative units: Ash Ch/AP/CP       Kent AncC
Place: Richborough

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