Antonine Wall

The Antonine Wall was a turf fortification on stone foundations, built by the Romans across what is now the of , between the and the .
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  • Type: Ruins
  • Description: defensive fortification in Roman Britain
  • Also known as: “Antonijnse Muur”, “Antonina Muro”, “Antoninske mur”, “Antoninski zid”, “Antoninuksen muuri”, “Antoninus vall”, “Antoniuksen muuri”, “Antoniuksen valli”, “Antonius mur”, “Antoniův val”, “Graham’s Dyke”, “Mur Anton”, “Mur Antonaidd”, “Mur Antonina”, “Mur Antoninusa”, “Mur Antwn”, “Muralla de Antonino Pio”, “Muralla de Antonino Pío”, “Muro Antonino”, “Muro de Antonino Pio”, “Muro de Antonino Pío”, “Severan Wall”, “Severův val”, “Vallo di Antonino”, “Vallo di Antonio Pio”, “Wall of Antoninus”, “Антониновия вал”, “Антонієвий вал”, “Вал Антонина Пия”, “Вал Антонія”, “Стена Антонина”, “アントニヌスの城壁”, “安东尼墙”, and “安敦長城”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hillfoot railway station and Kilmardinny House.

Railway station
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is a railway station in , near , . The station is managed by ScotRail and is served by their trains on the Argyle and North Clyde Lines. is situated 2,200 feet southwest of Antonine Wall.

Arts center
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is an arts center, which is situated 2,600 feet northwest of Antonine Wall.

School
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, a co-educational comprehensive secondary school located in the suburb of , , Scotland, serves pupils aged 11 to 18 from Southern Bearsden, Westerton and . is situated 2,600 feet southeast of Antonine Wall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bearsden and Milngavie.

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is a town 6 miles northwest of in East Dunbartonshire on , with a population of 28,500 in 2022. The main reason to visit is the Roman bath house, built in the brief period when the Romans occupied the Antonine Wall.

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is a town in in the of Scotland. With a population of just under 13,000 in 2022, it's a commuter and retirement town for Glasgow six miles to the southwest.

Suburb
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is a residential area of , . With most of the housing constructed in the 1970s, it is situated in the far north of the city and is considered to be part of the larger district, but has a different postcode; other nearby neighbourhoods are to the south and to the south-east. is situated 1½ miles southeast of Antonine Wall.

Antonine Wall

Latitude
55.92293° or 55° 55′ 23″ north
Longitude
-4.31024° or 4° 18′ 37″ west
Open location code
9C7QWMFQ+5W
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1427545346
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Wiki­data ID
Q210957
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Antonine Wall” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الجدار الأنطوني”
  • Basque: “Antoninoren Harresia”
  • Belarusian: “Вал Антаніна”
  • Breton: “Moger Antoninus”
  • Bulgarian: “Антонинов вал”
  • Catalan: “Mur d’Antoní”
  • Chinese: “安多宁长城”
  • Chinese: “安多寧長城”
  • Croatian: “Antoninov zid”
  • Czech: “Antoninův val”
  • Danish: “Antoninus-muren”
  • Danish: “Antoninusmuren”
  • Dutch: “Muur van Antoninus”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الجدار الانطونى”
  • Esperanto: “Muro de Antonino”
  • Estonian: “Antoninuse vall”
  • Finnish: “Antoninuksen valli”
  • French: “mur d’Antonin”
  • French: “Mur d’Antonin”
  • Galician: “Muralla de Antonino”
  • Georgian: “ანტონინეს კედელი”
  • German: “Antoninuswall”
  • Hebrew: “חומת אנטונינוס”
  • Hungarian: “Antoninus fala”
  • Irish: “Balla Antonine”
  • Italian: “Vallo Antonino”
  • Japanese: “アントニヌスの長城”
  • Korean: “안토니누스 방벽”
  • Latin: “Vallum Antonini”
  • Latvian: “Antonija valnis”
  • Lithuanian: “Antonino siena”
  • Macedonian: “Антониев ѕид”
  • Macedonian: “Антонинов ѕид”
  • Malayalam: “അന്റോണൈൻ കോട്ട”
  • Mongolian: “Антонины хана”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den antoninske mur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den antoninske muren”
  • Norwegian: “Den antoninske mur”
  • Persian: “دیوار آنتونین”
  • Polish: “Wał Antonina”
  • Portuguese: “Muralha de Antonino”
  • Romanian: “Zidul lui Antoninus”
  • Russian: “Вал Антонина”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Balla Antonine”
  • Serbian: “Antoninov zid”
  • Serbian: “Антонинов зид”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Antoninov zid”
  • Slovenian: “Antoninov zid”
  • Spanish: “Muro de Antonino”
  • Swedish: “Antoninus mur”
  • Turkish: “Antonine Duvarı”
  • Turkish: “Antoninus Duvarı”
  • Ukrainian: “Вал Антоніна”
  • Ukrainian: “Стіна Антонія”
  • Uzbek: “Antonin devori”
  • Welsh: “Mur Antoninus”
  • Western Frisian: “Muorre fan Antoninus”
  • Wu Chinese: “安东尼长城”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include New Kilpatrick Cemetery and Antonine Wall.

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