Laversdale

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Laversdale is a village in Cumbria, England.[1] The course of Hadrian's Wall runs near the village of Laversdale. This wall possesses the earliest written history of the local vicinity. The length of Hadrian's Wall is approximately 117 kilometres, spanning the width of Britain; the wall incorporated Agricola's Ditch[2] and was built primarily to prevent harrying by small bands of raiders and unwanted immigrants from the north, not as a fighting front to defend a significant invasion.[3]

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  1. ^ Philip's Motorist's Atlas: 2004, Octopus Publishing Group, London, England
  2. ^ C.Michael Hogan (2007) Hadrian's Wall, ed. Andy Burnham, The Megalithic Portal
  3. ^ Stephen Johnson (2004) Hadrian's Wall, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc, 128 pages, ISBN 0713488409



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