Cuthwulf fought the Britons at Bedcanford in 571 and captured four towns: Limbury, Aylesbury, Benson, and Eynsham. This West Saxon advance into the upper Thames valley seized towns that had retained Romano-British character and opened the route to Cirencester and the Cotswolds that Ceawlin would exploit at Dyrham in 577.
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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