FREE E-BOOKS Click Here

Our easy-to-use website contains details and locations of places to visit around this area. Please select from:

	Places to Stay: Bed and Breakfast Hotels and Guest Houses Pubs with Accommodation Self Catering
	Places to Eat and Drink: Cafes, Coffee & Tea Shops Pubs serving Food Restaurants and Bistros
	Places of Interest: Places to Visit
	Gardens Centres: Garden Centres/Nurseries
	Specialist Shops: Antiques & Restoration Arts and Crafts Fashions Gifts Home and Garden Jewellery Food and Drink Shops

Piercebridge

Driving past the picturesque village green of Piercebridge, most motorists will be unaware that they are passing through the centre of a once important Roman Fort. Piercebridge was one of a chain of forts on Dere Street, which linked the northern Roman headquarters at York with the north. Other forts in the chain were located at Catterick to the south and Binchester, just outside Bishop Auckland, to the north. The remains of the fort, which are still visible today, can be dated from coin evidence to around AD 270. The site is always open and admission is free. Finds from this site are housed in the Bowes Museum at Barnard Castle.

Available Guidebooks for this region:

Digital Editions by county of the Hidden Places Guides are available Free of Charge. To download please Click Here

The Hidden Places of Northumberland and Durham

This guidebook offers the reader places to stay, eat and drink as well as interesting places to visit and many main heritage sites. You can read more here.

The Hidden Places of England

This national guidebook covers every county in England offering places to stay, visit, eat and drink as well as places to visit. You can read more here.

The Country Living Guide to the North East

This guidebook covers Northumberland, Durham, Tyne and Wear and Yorkshire offering places to stay, visit, eat and drink as well as places to shop. You can read more here.

Travel Publishing Ltd, Airport Business Centre, 10 Thornbury Road, Estover, Plymouth, Devon, England, PL6 7PP

e-mail: info@travelpublishing.co.uk Registered company number: 3355914