This place-name translates as "Valley of the Loud Water(s)". What is the place-name in the original?

Question

Hints:

1. "X is the bloodiest (deleted descriptive-noun) in all of (a nation's name)," X being the sought place-name.

2. The Romans later recalled this place as one of darkness, full of evil and where a man would go only if he valued his life lightly.

3. The place had a "strength".

4. A failed assassin once was the master of this place--but not for long.

5.There is a solar "secret" to a nearby Roman construction and why it's located and placed as it is.

Answer 1

LIDDELL

Liddell means valley of the loud water and is found in Liddesdale, a border valley formed by the Liddel Water in the Scottish borders. The surname which may derive from the place is closely associated with the North East where the Liddell family were the Lords of Ravensworth near Gateshead. Ravensworth was the site of the Liddell family seat called Ravensworth Castle, which was demolished in 1953, due to mining subsidence. The Liddells were one of four big coal owning families known as the 'Grand Allies' who dominated North Eastern coal mining in the eighteenth century. The other grand allies were the Brandlings of Gosforth, Russells of Brancepeth and the Bowes family of Strathmore. A later Victorian coal owner called Thomas Liddell built Ravensworth Castle on the site of a hall first built by his ancestor Colonel Liddell in 1724. Perhaps the most famous Liddell of all was Alice Liddell, whose great grandmother lived in the South Bailey in Durham City. Little Alice's family were friends of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson who immortalised the young girl under his pen name Lewis Carroll as 'Alice in Wonderland'. The surname Liddell also occurs in the forms Liddel andLiddle.

Answer 2

ludlow