The Mercian Register records Aethelflaed built a burh at Bridgnorth on the Severn in 912. Bridgnorth controlled the upper Severn valley and guarded against Welsh and Norse incursions from the west. The same site had been used by the Danish army as a winter camp in 895-896, and its conversion to an English burh was symbolically significant. Bridgnorth was a key western anchor of the Mercian defensive network.
Mercian builders under Aethelflaed
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