The Chronicle records Aethelflaed building a burh at Warwick in 914 — one of the sequence of fortified towns that systematically closed the routes by which Danish armies from the East Midlands raided into English Mercia. Warwick's position on the River Avon, guarding the approach from the Danelaw settlements around Leicester, made it strategically vital. The town that grew from the burh became one of the most significant in the Midlands, and its castle one of England's finest.
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