Durobrivae (Water Newton)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Feb 12, 2025 08:52 AM
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History
Durobrivae was a fortified Roman garrison town that was located at what is now Water Newton, Cambridgeshire. The fort was placed at the point where Ermine Street crossed the River Nene. The name Durobrivae may be a Latinisation of the Brythonic term *Durobrīwās that translates to"fort (by the) bridges".
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79432
52.5586212239, -0.347947659546
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of Durobrivae, Roman Town (AD 43 - AD 410) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Durobrivae (30 BC - AD 640)
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 G2 Durobrivae
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Chesterton/Water Newton
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Durobrivae (Water Newton): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79432> [accessed: 04 April 2025]
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