North East England
Northumberland
Corbridge

Coria

Coria was a fort and town 2.5 miles south of , in the Roman province of Britannia. It was strategically located on the junction of a major Roman north–south road with the and the Roman Stanegate road, which was also the first frontier line which ran east–west between Coria and Luguvalium.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: archaeological site in Corbridge, Northumberland, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Corbridge (Corstopitum) Roman station”, “Corbridge Roman fort”, “Corbridge Roman Site”, “Corbridge Roman Town Fort”, “Coria (Corbridge)”, “Coriosopitum”, and “Corstopitum”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Corbridge Vicar’s Pele and Corbridge Market Cross.

Historic building
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Corbridge Vicar's Pele is a pele tower in the village of , , England. It was a three-storey defensive pele tower, with one room to each storey, built in the churchyard in 1318, and used as the vicarage for the adjacent church. is situated 2,500 feet southeast of Coria.

Historic site
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is a historic site, which is situated 2,500 feet southeast of Coria.

Church
Photo: Mike Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is situated 2,400 feet southeast of Coria.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Anick and Aydon.

Hamlet
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is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of , in , England, situated to the north of . In 1881 the parish had a population of 153. is situated 2 miles west of Coria.

Hamlet
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is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of , in , England. It is about 2 miles northeast of Corbridge on the B6321 road. is situated 2 miles northeast of Coria.

Hamlet
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is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Whittington, in the southern part of , England. It is situated 3 miles north of just south of . is situated 2 miles northeast of Coria.

Coria

Latitude
54.97819° or 54° 58′ 42″ north
Longitude
-2.02932° or 2° 1′ 46″ west
Elevation
148 feet (45 metres)
Operator
English Heritage
Open location code
9C6VXXHC+77
Open­Street­Map ID
way 39896930
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
7932540
Wiki­data ID
Q3819299
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Swedish—“Coria” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Coria”
  • Cebuano: “Corbridge Roman fort”
  • Chinese: “哥橋羅馬鎮”
  • Czech: “Coria”
  • Czech: “Corstopitum”
  • Dutch: “Coria”
  • German: “Coria”
  • German: “Coriosopitum”
  • Italian: “Coriosopitum”
  • Ladin: “Coria”
  • Latin: “Coriosopitum”
  • Latin: “Corstopitum”
  • Russian: “Кориа”
  • Spanish: “Coria”
  • Swedish: “Corbridge Roman fort”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Coria”. Photo: Mike Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.