Brough, Nottinghamshire

Brough
Brough
	Brough Location within Nottinghamshire
OS grid reference	SK837583
Civil parish	Collingham;
District	Newark and Sherwood;
Shire county	Nottinghamshire;
Region	East Midlands;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	NEWARK
Postcode district	NG23
Police	Nottinghamshire
Fire	Nottinghamshire
Ambulance	East Midlands
UK Parliament	Newark;

Brough is a hamlet in Nottinghamshire, England.

Location

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

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]

References

Nikolaus Pevsner, 1979. The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, pp. 83–84, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin.
Google Maps. Retrieved 8 October 2020.

External links

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[1] Nikolaus Pevsner, 1979. The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, pp. 83–84, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin.

[2] Google Maps. Retrieved 8 October 2020.