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The castrum is 168 paces from south to north, by 110 within the
foss; which was also surrounded with a stone-wall. The stones
have been removed to the fence-wall on the road side, and being
in Plumpton, is called Plumpton-wall.
The station is a vast heap of ruins, of stone building. The walls
are of great thickness, and cemented. The town has surrounded the
station, except on the side of the Petteral. But whether the
station took its name from the river, as being upon its banks,
and was called the Petriana, or whether the station gave name to
the river (which is perhaps the least probable) let him who can
determine.
The station is twelve miles and three quarters from Carlisle;
five and a quarter from Penrith; about seven from
Brougham-castle; and about eighteen from Keswick, where an
intermediate station must have been, between Ambleside and
Moresby, having Caer-mot between it and old Carlisle, and
Papcastle between it and Moresby. The summer station would be on
Castle-hill, and the winter station on the area of the present
town of Keswick, or on some convenient place betwixt the conflux
of the rivers Greeta and Derwent. And it is more probable that
the Derventione of the Chorographia was here than at Papcastle,
which comes better in for the Pampo-
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