The Tees valley communities were destroyed during the Harrying, with survivors according to chronicler Orderic Vitalis reduced to eating horses, dogs, and even each other in the famine that followed.
William I: c. 1,000–2,000 troops. Teesdale settlements: civilian populations.
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