Place:Aldborough, Yorkshire, England

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NameAldborough
Alt namesBurcsource: Domesday Book (1985) p 313
Burgsource: Domesday Book (1985) p 313
Isuriumsource: Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) accessed 3 August 2004
TypeVillage
Coordinates54.084°N 1.372°W
Located inYorkshire, England
Also located inNorth Yorkshire, England    
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Aldborough is a village in the civil parish of Boroughbridge, part of the Borough of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England.

Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, what is now known as Aldborough was built on the site of a major Romano-British town, Isurium Brigantum. The Brigantes, the most populous Celtic tribe in the area at the time of the Roman occupation of Britain, used the settlement as a capital. Isurium may also have been the base of the Roman Legio VIIII Hispana.

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Aldborough lost much of its importance when the river crossing was moved to nearby Boroughbridge in Norman times. Nevertheless, in the Middle Ages it was made a Parliamentary Borough, and returned two Members of Parliament (MPs) until the seat was abolished in the Great Reform Act of 1832.

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