Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for ALCESTER

ALCESTER, the vestige of the Roman Ælia Castra, on Akeman Street, 1½ mile SW of Bicester, Oxford he place shows faint traces of a square enclosure divided by four ways.


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

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