After Hastings, William systematically ravaged southern England to force submission. Various skirmishes occurred as Norman columns spread out from the battle site. The circuit of devastation through Kent, Surrey, Hampshire and back to London — documented by the Carmen de Hastingae Proelio — included numerous smaller engagements that compelled English submission town by town.
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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