Halfdan, having returned from raiding Mercia and Northumbria, divided the Yorkshire farmland among his followers. This was the first large-scale Viking agricultural settlement in Yorkshire. The place names ending in -thorpe, -by, and -thwaite across Yorkshire are the direct legacy of this division. Halfdan became king of Jorvik but was killed the following year at the Battle of Strangford Lough.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
Research a location near East Riding