Hereward and the Danish fleet under King Sweyn pillaged Peterborough Abbey before the Normans could appoint their own abbot, a symbolic act of resistance that established Hereward as the leader of English guerrilla opposition.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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