Worcester was a key Severn crossing town and saw heavy fighting in 1139 as Matilda established herself in the West Midlands. The city was partially burned in the fighting. Worcester lay between the Angevin heartland of Gloucester and Bristol and the contested Midlands.
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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