Following Alfred\'s decisive victory at Edington in 878 and the subsequent baptism of Guthrum, the frontier between English and Danish-controlled territory was defined and periodically disputed. Bedford, on the River Ouse, was in the no-man\'s land between West Saxon-aligned Mercia and Danish East Anglia. Alfred\'s campaigns in the 880s-890s gradually pushed Danish raiding forces back, and Bedford became a key point on the contested frontier that was eventually formalised in the Treaty of Alfred and Guthrum.
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