“Stanwix”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

'Stanwix' means " 'stone wall(s)', v. 'steinn', 'veggr'... The stone walls of Congavata...gave rise to the name." ^[3] 'Steinn' and 'veggr' are Old Norse. Congavata was the name of the Roman fort at what became Drumburgh-by Sands on the Solway Firth; however, it was Petriana that gave rise to the name of Stanwix.

Location

Stanwix is built on the site of a Roman fort known as Uxelodunum or Petriana. This was the largest fort on Hadrian's Wall, which adjoined the northwest edge of the fort.

The former village of Stanwix was centred on its church of St Michael's ^[4] at the top of a steep bank rising from the river Eden, close to the junction of the main road north (now the A7) with the road to the east (now the B6264). In the mid nineteenth century the district grew with many large houses built for Carlisle's expanding middle classes.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}} Today Stanwix includes the areas of Edentown, Whiteclosegate, St Anne's Hill and Belah.

Notable buildings

Near the church today is a small parade of shops and other businesses.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}} Morrisons and Aldi supermarkets and a Sainsburys Local store are located in the area as well.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}} A little further north at Kingstown is a large Asda superstore.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}} The University of Cumbria has a campus on Brampton Road (formerly the main campus of the Cumbria Institute of the Arts).{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}} There is also a Roman Catholic private school called Austin Friars St Monica's School located at St. Anne's Hill.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}} The course of Hadrian's Wall runs through the suburb, and the area around the church is built on the site of the fort of Uxelodunum.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}

A single bridge, the grade I listed Eden Bridge designed by Robert Smirke,^[5] crosses the River Eden to connect Stanwix and other northern reaches of the district to Carlisle city centre. Numerous households in low-lying areas in Stanwix were badly affected by the flooding of the River Eden during the Carlisle Floods of January 2005.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}}

The main road running northwards through Stanwix is Scotland Road, and until 2012 had the dubious distinction of carrying the same daily volume of traffic as the nearby M6 motorway.{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}} In 2012 the "northern relief road" opened, around the north-west of Carlisle, which should ease congestion.

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References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13691177&c=CA3+0PF&d=14&e=62&g=6411755&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=0&s=1435226508938&enc=1|title=Carlisle ward population 2011|accessdate=25 June 2015}}
2. ^{{cite book |last=Youngs |first= Frederic A, Jr. |title=Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.2: Northern England |year=1991 |publisher=Royal Historical Society |location=London |isbn=0-86193-127-0 |page=59}}
3. ^{{Cite book|last=Armstrong|first=A. M.|last2=Mawer|first2=A.|last3=Stenton|first3=F. M.|last4=Dickens|first4=B.|title=The place-names of Cumberland|volume=Part 1|series=English Place-Name Society, vol.xx|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1950|page=109}}
4. ^church website
5. ^{{Cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1297364|title=EDEN BRIDGE, Carlisle - 1297364{{!}} Historic England|last=England|first=Historic|website=historicengland.org.uk|access-date=2017-06-19}}

Etymology

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