Wallingford was the most persistently held castle of the entire Anarchy, garrisoned for Matilda by Brian fitz Count. Stephen besieged it repeatedly without success. Its fall would have severed the Thames corridor between Oxford and London. Its stubbornness forced the eventual peace of 1153.
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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