Laversdale

Laversdale

Laversdale is a village in Cumbria, England. [Philip's Motorist's Atlas: 2004, Octopus Publishing Group, London, England] The course of Hadrian's Wall runs near the village of Laversdale. This wall possesses the earliest written history of the local vicinity. The length of Hadrian's Wall is approximately 117 kilometres, spanning the width of Britain; the wall incorporated Agricola's Ditch [ [http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=18177 C.Michael Hogan (2007) "Hadrian's Wall", ed. Andy Burnham, The Megalithic Portal] ] and was built primarily to prevent harrying by small bands of raiders and unwanted immigrants from the north, not as a fighting front to defend a significant invasion. [Stephen Johnson (2004) "Hadrian's Wall", Sterling Publishing Company, Inc, 128 pages, ISBN 0713488409]

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*Stanegate

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