The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that Penda fought the West Saxons at Cirencester and that thereafter they made peace. The battle was part of Penda's establishment of Mercian dominance over the Cotswold region and the creation of the Hwicce as a Mercian sub-kingdom covering Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. Cirencester — the second-largest Roman city in Britain — was a prize worth fighting for. The Hwicce's cathedral at Worcester grew from this conquest.
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