Stamford — the southernmost of the Danish Five Boroughs — was retaken by Edward the Elder as part of his systematic dismantling of the Danelaw. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that the Danes of Stamford submitted to Edward. Stamford's strategic position on the Great North Road (Ermine Street) and the River Welland made it vital. Its recovery in 918 opened the route north toward Lincoln and the Humber. The Five Boroughs fell in rapid succession: Derby to Aethelflaed 917, Leicester and Nottingham to Aethelflaed and Edward 918, Stamford to Edward 918.
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