Brough is a hamlet in Nottinghamshire, England.
Location edit
It is located in the Newark and Sherwood District, 5 miles (8 km) to the north of Newark-on-Trent, on the A46 Fosse Way. Its population is included in the adjacent civil parish of Collingham.
History edit
Brough stands on the site of the Roman town of Crococalana, which grew around a military fort in the 1st century AD. The town spread along the Roman Fosse Way for about a mile, and had ditched defences.[1]
Brough Methodist Chapel is now permanently closed.[2]
See also edit
References edit
- ^ Nikolaus Pevsner, 1979. The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, pp. 83–84, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin.
- ^ Google Maps. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
External links edit
Media related to Brough, Nottinghamshire at Wikimedia Commons
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