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PENRITH (Old), a place in the S of Cumberland; on Watling-street and the river Petterril, 5 miles N by W of Penrith. It had a Roman station, thought variously to have been Patriana, Voreda, and Brementuracum; it retains vestiges of a camp of three acres; and it has yielded urns, inscriptions, an altar to Mars, and other Roman relics
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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Feature Description: | "a place" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
Administrative units: | Cumberland AncC |
Place names: | OLD PENRITH | PENRITH | PENRITH OLD |
Place: | Old Penrith |
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