Edward built a burh at Maldon in Essex in 916, controlling the estuary of the Blackwater and cutting off Danish movement along the Essex coast. Maldon later became famous as the site of the disastrous English defeat in 991, but in Edward reign it was an advance strongpoint in the reconquest of East Anglia. The Chronicle also records construction of a burh on the south side of Hertford at the same time.
West Saxon army under Edward the Elder
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