Uxacona was a

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settlement located at Redhill near present-day

Telford Telford () is a town in the Telford and Wrekin borough status in the United Kingdom, borough in Shropshire, England. The wider borough covers the town, its suburbs and surrounding towns and villages. The town is close to the county's eastern b ...

Shropshire Shropshire (; abbreviated SalopAlso used officially as the name of the county from 1974–1980. The demonym for inhabitants of the county "Salopian" derives from this name.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West M ...

, England. The settlement lies at the highest point of the Roman

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, approximately 11

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s from

Viroconium Cornoviorum Viroconium or Uriconium, formally Viroconium Cornoviorum, was a Roman city, one corner of which is now occupied by Wroxeter, a small village in Shropshire, England, about east-south-east of Shrewsbury. At its peak, Viroconium is estimated t ...

(

Wroxeter Wroxeter ( ) is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wroxeter and Uppington, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It is beside the River Severn, south-east of Shrewsbury. In 1961 the ...

) to the west, and 11 miles from

Pennocrucium Pennocrucium was a Romano-British settlement and military complex located at present day Water Eaton, just south of Penkridge, Staffordshire, with evidence of occupation from the mid-1st century until the 4th century. The settlement was mentione ...

(

Penkridge Penkridge ( ) is a village and civil parish in South Staffordshire, South Staffordshire District in Staffordshire, England. It is to the south of Stafford, north of Wolverhampton, west of Cannock, east of Telford and south-east of Newport, Shro ...

) to the east. Its only documentary mention is in the 2nd century

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. The main settlement consisted of a small enclosure bisected by Watling Street, surrounded by a single ditch and showing evidence of occupation from the early to the mid 4th century. To the north of the settlement lay a large single-ditched enclosure that may have been a military storage depot from the campaign of

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in AD 57 and a smaller double-ditched enclosure that may have been a signal station from the later 1st century. The site is a

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, and also recorded on the

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Redhill

Uxacona is commonly referred to as being at Redhill or Red Hill, Shropshire. The placename "Redhill" has been applied to several locations in the vicinity of Uxacona. While Uxacona is divided between the parishes of

Shifnal Shifnal () is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire, England, about east of Telford, 17 miles (27 km) east of Shrewsbury and 13 miles (20 km) west-northwest of Wolverhampton. It is near the M54 motorway and A5 (road), A5 road ...

(south of Watling Street, east) in

Unitary Authority area, and

Donnington and Muxton Donnington and Muxton is a civil parish in Telford and Wrekin unitary area, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. The parish includes the villages of Donnington and Muxton, and part of the area known as The Humbers. The parish is ...

(north of Watling Street, west) and St. Georges and Priorslee (south of Watling Street, west) in

Telford & Wrekin Telford and Wrekin is a borough and unitary authority in Shropshire, England. In 1974, a non-metropolitan district of Shropshire was created called the Wrekin, named after a prominent hill to the west of Telford. In 1998, the district became a ...

, the parish of

Sheriffhales Sheriffhales is a dispersed settlement, scattered village in Shropshire, England, north-east of Telford, north of Shifnal and south of Newport, Shropshire, Newport. The name derives from Halh (Anglican) and scīr-rēfa (Old English) which i ...

(north of Watling Street, east, in Shropshire UA) is said by its parish council to include Redhill, and includes Redhill Farm. An area on the eastern outskirts of Telford town, in the parish of Donnington and Muxton, north of Watling Street and east of Redhill Way, is referred to as Redhill. Plans have been approved for 457 houses in this area, and for a supermarket, coffeeshop, other retail and charging station, and for a 66-bed care home. On Ordnance Survey mapping at the 1:25,000 scale, "Redhill" appears both south-east and north-west of Uxocana, while on the larger scale OS mapping included in the NHLE listing, it appears within the scheduled area, near the spot height of 186m, and also due north of the site. On the "Granville Heritage Trail" leaflet produced by Telford & Wrekin Council, a map identifies "Redhill" as an area west of the A4640 road, which at that point is called "Redhill Way", while Redhill Primary Academy is south of the

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but east of the A4640.

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includes "Redhill" in the postal addresses for the area of new housing but also for the crematorium adjacent to Uxacona, and Redhill Farm further east. The

trig point A triangulation station, also known as a trigonometrical point, and sometimes informally as a trig, is a fixed surveying station, used in geodetic surveying and other surveying projects in its vicinity. The station is usually set up by a map ...

which formerly marked the summit of Red Hill or Redhill on the A5 or Watling Street is reported to have been moved point on the driveway to Upper Woodhouse Farm, south of its original location.

References

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