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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Wall Town like this:
WALLTOWN, a township in Haltwhistle parish, Northumberland; on the Roman wall, 2 miles NNW of Haltwhistle. It contains the Roman station Æsiea, now called Great Chesters, contains also the residence of Bishop Ridley's brother, now a farmhouse. Acres, 2,956. Pop., 68. Houses, 14.
Wall Town is now part of NORTHUMBERLAND Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how NORTHUMBERLAND has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Wall Town itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Wall Town in Northumberland | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/9744
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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