The fertile chalk uplands of the Yorkshire Wolds were stripped bare by Norman columns, their settlements burned and grain stores destroyed to deny any future rebel force a supply base.
William I: c. 1,500–2,500 troops. Wolds settlements: mostly unarmed civilians.
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