The Grahams of the Esk valley and Arthuret parish in Cumberland were among the most destructive of all English-side reiver clans throughout the 1560s. Their raids into the surrounding Cumberland lowlands and their cross-border cooperation with Scottish reivers made them the perpetual target of English Warden operations. The Arthuret Graham branch, operating from Netherby and surrounding farmsteads, were particularly active in the 1560s as the breakdown of central authority following the Northern Rising opened a window of lawlessness that the Grahams exploited systematically.
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 Cumberland