Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians, built a fortified burh at Stafford in 913 as part of her systematic construction of defended towns along the Danelaw frontier. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records burhs at Tamworth and Stafford in the same year. Stafford sat on a spur of land above the River Sow — an easily defended peninsula. It became the county town of Staffordshire. The burh system transformed English military strategy, giving the Anglo-Saxons permanent defended bases that the Danes found very difficult to capture.
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