The Mercian Register records Aethelflaed fortified the old Iron Age hillfort at Eddisbury in 914, creating a burh to control the Cheshire plain against Norse incursions from the Wirral. The Norse had established a colony on the Wirral in 902 after being expelled from Dublin and raided regularly into Mercia. Eddisbury was one of a chain of Mercian burhs designed to contain the Wirral Norse threat.
Mercian builders under Aethelflaed
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