Aldborough, North Yorkshire

Not to be confused with Aldbrough St John or Aldbrough, East Riding of Yorkshire.

Aldborough
Aldborough village green
Aldborough is located in North Yorkshire
Aldborough
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Postcode districtYO51
Dialling code01423
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54°05′28″N 1°22′50″W / 54.09111°N 1.38056°W / 54.09111; -1.38056

Aldborough is a village 7 miles (11 km) in the civil parish of Boroughbridge, to the north-east of Knaresborough, in North Yorkshire, England.[1]

Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Aldborough was built on the site of a major Romano-British town, Isurium Brigantum. The Brigantes, the most populous Celtic tribe in the area at the time of the Roman occupation of Britain, used the settlement as a capital.[2] Isurium may also have been the base of the Roman Legio VIIII Hispana.

  1. ^ AA Book of British Villages. Drive Publications Limited. 1980. p. 16. ISBN 9780340254875.
  2. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Aldborough" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 530–531.