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Galava (or Ambleside Roman Fort) was a fort in the Roman province of Britannia. It dates from the 1st or 2nd century. The ruins are located near Waterhead, close to Ambleside.
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It guarded the Roman road from Brocavum (Brougham) to Glannaventa (Ravenglass) on the west Cumbria coast. There is also assumed to have been a road south to the fort at Alauna (Kendal). Galava overlooked the Cumbrian mountains to the west and the north, and was also at the north end of Lake Windermere, making it a very strategic place.
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The ruins of the Barracks. Following detailed excavations commencing in 1914, it was established that the fort was an oblong enclosure covering nearly three acres of land.
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The Roman Commandants House, now occupied by a few cows!
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Looking to the north and at the Lake District mountains from the fort, The range is known as Fairfield Horseshoe and is well known to fell walkers.
(My thanks to our Roving Lakeland Correspondent for some of the above images).
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