The Roman Map of Britain Maglone or Magione Old Carlisle, Westward, Cumberland

Maio (R&C 120) next
Magloue (ND xl₁₃ illustration)
Maglone var. Magloue (ND xl₂₈ text) This entry influenced a copyist to record the next ND entry as Magis rather than Mais.
Vik(ani) Mag(...) (RIB 899) altar at Old Carlisle

    Old Carlisle NY2646 is located on the Wiza Beck, a tributary of the River Wampool. The name Wiza Beck is not of British origin. Wampool  poll'  Waðoen ca. 1060 is considered British in structure, later Vathinpol and Wakenpol 1279. Ekwall considered the name based on Scandanavian vað 'a ford', Old Norse vaðill.

    A common element is place-names along the Wiza Beck is long - Longcroft, Longlands Head and Moor, Longland Cottages, Longhead, Low and High Longthwaite, and Longwath. Both Ptolemy's Loggou potamou Longus fl. and perhaps Lanchester's early form Longovicio support the possibility that the river-name was Long- or Lonc-. All forms of the place-name can be resolved to Mag(io)-longa or -lonca, and translated 'river-plain of the Long-.'

OLD CARLISLE (OLERICA sic) FORT AND CIVIL SETTLEMENT

    On further reflection, perhaps we have a mag  related to OW magu ' to rear, bring up, to produce, engender, conceive', Breton magus 'nourishing' in the sense that this tributary 'nourishes' the river Long. There is a similar name in Mag(io)louento (AI's Magiovinto) on the Lovat.