Letocetum
Letocetum is the ancient remains of a Roman settlement. It was an important military staging post and posting station near the junction of Watling Street, the Roman military road to north Wales, and Icknield Street.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Email: letocetum@nationaltrust.org.uk
- Type: Ruins
- Description: Roman settlement
- Also known as: “Letocetum Roman Baths and Museum” and “Roman site, Letocetum”
- Address: Watling Street, Wall, WS14 0AW
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Church of St John and Lichfield Cathedral.
Church of St John
Church
Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Church of St John is situated 350 feet northeast of Letocetum.
Lichfield Cathedral
Church
Photo: Bs0u10e01, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lichfield Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary and Saint Chad in Lichfield, is a Church of England cathedral in the city of Lichfield, England. Lichfield Cathedral is situated 2 miles northeast of Letocetum.
Shenstone railway station
Railway station
Photo: Voice of Clam, Public domain.
Shenstone railway station serves the village of Shenstone, in Staffordshire, England. It is a stop on the Cross-City Line between Bromsgrove/Redditch, Birmingham New Street and Lichfield Trent Valley. Shenstone railway station is situated 1¼ miles south of Letocetum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wall and Pipehill.
Wall
Hamlet
Photo: Oosoom, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Wall is a small village and civil parish in Staffordshire, England, just south of Lichfield. It lies on the site of the Roman settlement of Letocetum. The parish includes the small villages of Pipehill, Hilton and Chesterfield, and the tiny hamlet of Aldershawe, which is about 1⁄2 mi north of the village of Wall.
Pipehill
Hamlet
Photo: Adrian Rothery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pipehill is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the parish of Hammerwich, in the Lichfield district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. It is located between Wall and Hammerwich.
Muckley Corner
Hamlet
Muckley Corner is a small village and area of Hammerwich in Lichfield District of Staffordshire, England. The village is located on the A5 road/Watling Street and borders the Walsall Metropolitan Borough in the West Midlands County and Lichfield District in Staffordshire.
Letocetum
- Categories: archaeological site and historic site
- Location: Wall, Lichfield District, Staffordshire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.65702° or 52° 39′ 25″ northLongitude
-1.85647° or 1° 51′ 23″ westOperator
English HeritageOpen location code
9C4WM44V+RCOpenStreetMap ID
way 295518650OpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsWikidata ID
Q1230592
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“Letocetum” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Letocetum”
- Catalan: “Letocetum”
- Chinese: “李杜士林”
- Dutch: “Letocetum”
- Italian: “Letocetum”
- Latin: “Letocetum”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Letocetum”
- Norwegian: “Letocetum”
- Portuguese: “‘Letocetum Roman Baths Site & Museum’”
- Portuguese: “‘Wall Roman Site’”
- Portuguese: “Letoceto”
- Portuguese: “Letocetum”
- Spanish: “Letocetum”
- Welsh: “Letocetum”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Letocetum Roman Baths And Museum and Wall Village Hall.
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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 “Letocetum”. Photo: Bs0u10e01, CC BY 3.0.