Ealdorman Osric of Dorset defeated a Danish force in 844. This and similar local victories showed that English ealdormen could organise effective local resistance, giving Alfred the institutional basis for his more systematic coastal defence and the building of burhs later in the century.
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.
Research a location near Lancashire