Penda attempted to fire Bamburgh castle by piling captured wooden buildings against its walls, but Bede records that Aidan praying on Farne Island saw the smoke and prayed for the wind to turn, which it did. The siege failed, and Bamburgh was preserved as a key Northumbrian stronghold.
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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