The Great Heathen Army sacked and burned Medeshamstede (Peterborough) in 870 during its advance into East Anglia and the Fens. The monastery was one of the richest in England and its destruction was catastrophic for the Fenland monastic network. The abbot Hedda and all the monks were killed. The monastery lay abandoned for over a century.
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