A Danish fleet ravaged the Isle of Sheppey in 835 in what the Chronicle records as an early escalation of Viking activity against England. Sheppey, lying in the Thames estuary, was an ideal point of entry for Danish raiding. The attack preceded the sustained Viking assaults of the following decade and showed the vulnerability of the Thames approaches.
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