Brough, Nottinghamshire

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Brough
Nottinghamshire
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Brough Methodist Chapel
Location
Grid reference: SK837583
Location: 53°7’12"N, 0°45’0"W
Data
Post town: Newark
Postcode: NG23
Local Government
Council: Newark and Sherwood

Brough is a hamlet in Nottinghamshire, five miles to the north of Newark on Trent, on the A46 Fosse Way.

This was the site of the Roman town of Crococalana, which grew around a military fort of the 1st century. The town spread along the Fosse way for about a mile, and had ditched defences.[1]

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References

  1. Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, 1951; 1979 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09636-1page 83–84
Brough church