The Tees valley and its upland communities were burned during the Harrying as Norman columns swept north of the River Tees to secure the county boundary. Teesdale's settlements, including the communities around what would later become Barnard Castle, were destroyed and the valley's agricultural capacity eliminated. Orderic Vitalis records that in Teesdale survivors were reduced to eating horses, dogs and even the bodies of the dead in the famine that followed.
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