The last serious armed English resistance to the Norman Conquest. Hereward the Wake held the Isle of Ely — then truly an island in the Fens — with English and Danish fugitives. William built a causeway to assault it; a second assault succeeded when monks guided the Normans across secret paths. Hereward's escape turned him into the quintessential English outlaw hero, ancestor of the Robin Hood archetype.
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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