Ardotalia
Ardotalia, also known as Melandra or Melandra Castle, is a Roman fort in Gamesley, near Glossop in Derbyshire, England. Ardotalia was constructed by Cohors Primae Frisiavonum—The First Cohort of Frisiavones.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Ruins
- Description: Roman fort in Gamesley, near Glossop in Derbyshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Melandra Castle” and “Melandra Castle Roman fort”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Dinting railway station and Dinting Viaduct.
Dinting railway station
Railway station
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Dinting railway station serves the village of Dinting in Derbyshire, England. It is a stop on the Glossop line and, prior to the Woodhead Line's closure in 1981, Dinting was a station on the Great Central Main Line between Manchester Piccadilly and Sheffield Victoria. Dinting railway station is situated 3,900 feet east of Ardotalia.
Dinting Viaduct
Bridge
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Dinting Viaduct is a 19th-century railway viaduct in Glossopdale in Derbyshire, England, that carries the Glossop Line over a valley at the village of Dinting. Dinting Viaduct is situated 3,700 feet southeast of Ardotalia.
Hadfield railway station
Railway station
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Hadfield railway station serves the Peak District town of Hadfield in Derbyshire, England. The station is one of the twin termini at the Derbyshire end of the Glossop Line, the other being Glossop. Hadfield railway station is situated 1 mile northeast of Ardotalia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gamesley and Hollingworth.
Gamesley
Village
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Gamesley is a residential area within the Borough of High Peak in Derbyshire, England, west of Glossop and close to the River Etherow which forms the boundary with Tameside in Greater Manchester.
Hollingworth
Village
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Hollingworth is a village in the Tameside district, in Greater Manchester, England. It is about 11 miles east of Manchester, on the Derbyshire border near Hadfield.
Hadfield
Town
Hadfield is a town in the High Peak of Derbyshire, England, with a population at the 2021 Census of 6,763. It lies on the south side of the River Etherow, near to the border with Greater Manchester, at the western edge of the Peak District close to Glossop.
Ardotalia
- Categories: castrum and historic site
- Location: High Peak District, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.45216° or 53° 27′ 8″ northLongitude
-1.98782° or 1° 59′ 16″ westOpen location code
9C5WF226+VVOpenStreetMap ID
node 249330510OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsWikidata ID
Q4788242
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Ardotalia” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Ардоталиа”
- Cebuano: “Ardotalia”
- Czech: “Ardotalia”
- Swedish: “Ardotalia”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Glossop Recycling Centre and Gamesley Post Office.
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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 “Ardotalia”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.