Roman Sites Tick List

This project attempts to explore and investigate the key Roman ruins of northern England, of course it incorporates a short walk.

We are blessed to have a rich vein of preserved sites to go at!

Bremetennacum was a Roman fort on the site of the present day village of Ribchester.

The site guarded a crossing point of the River Ribble. The first known Roman activity was the building of a timber fort, believed to have been constructed during the campaigns of Petillius Cerialis around AD 72. This was replaced by a stone fort in the 2nd century.

The Romano-British fort that visitors see at Ambleside to-day was built during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (AD 117–38) on the site of an earlier fort. It was the base for a garrison of about 500 soldiers, and its setting on the northern shore of Lake Windermere made it strategically vital to the Roman occupation of Cumbria.

The well-preserved remains of the fort’s most important buildings and stunning lakeside setting make it one of the most evocative Roman sites in north-west England.

The Roman fort at Kendal, is both invisible these days, and almost impossible to get to. The buried remains are sited in a loop of the River Kent, on farm land adjoined to Watercrook Farm. The fort has been greatly reduced in height and form by years of ploughing and farming, and now consists of a faint almost indistinct square platform in the field. Even aerial photographs show very little of the fort’s remain.

The Satury is a low mound of earth that can be found along the public footpath that runs south of the fort at Watercrook. The name “Sattur” means the place of a Roman temple dedicated to the Roman God Saturn, though it is generally agreed now that the name could come from Old Norse meaning “the mound of the settlement”