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Hereward Guerrilla Raids from Ely 1070

1070
Cambridgeshire, England
Era
Medieval
Battle Type
Raid
Location
Cambridgeshire, England
Status
Unregistered
Outcome
Wide area of eastern England disrupted; Norman administration of the Fens paralysed; the guerrilla campaign continued until the Normans' siege of Ely in 1071, which Hereward escaped.
The Battle

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Hereward Guerrilla Raids from Ely 1070 was a medieval raid, fought in the area of Cambridgeshire, England in 1070. Wide area of eastern England disrupted; Norman administration of the Fens paralysed; the guerrilla campaign continued until the Normans' siege of Ely in 1071, which Hereward escaped.

The ground

The ground they fought on

The site of Hereward Guerrilla Raids from Ely 1070 lies on Lower Greensand Group, bedrock that formed in the Albian. The rock here is sandstone and mudstone.

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Scheduled Monuments near Hereward Guerrilla Raids from Ely 1070

Ely Cathedral: claustral buildings
Ely Cathedral: claustral buildings
Scheduled monument · ~0.2 mi

Ely Cathedral's claustral buildings are a series of monastic structures that formed the domestic and administrative heart of the cathedral priory. Dating primarily from the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, these buildings were constructed around the cloister garth and include the chapter hous…

Magnus Manske / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
'Cherry Hill', castle mound
'Cherry Hill', castle mound
Scheduled monument · ~0.3 mi

Cherry Hill is a castle mound located in Cambridgeshire, England. The site represents a motte-and-bailey earthwork, a characteristic defensive structure of the Norman period following the conquest of 1066. The mound survives as a prominent earthen elevation with associated bailey features, typica…

Chris Gunns / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Stretham pumping engine
Stretham pumping engine
Scheduled monument · ~4.8 mi

Stretham pumping engine is a beam engine installed in 1831 to manage water levels in the Cambridgeshire Fens. The engine, built by the engineering firm Butterley Company, represents the technological innovations of the industrial period applied to the long-standing challenge of fen drainage. The…

William M. Connolley at English Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Isleham priory: an alien Benedictine priory 100m west of St Andrew's Church
Isleham priory: an alien Benedictine priory 100m west of St Andrew's Church
Scheduled monument · ~7.4 mi

Isleham Priory is an alien Benedictine priory founded in the twelfth century in Cambridgeshire, established as a dependency of the French monastery of Zarnac. The priory, located approximately one hundred metres west of St Andrew's Church in the parish, comprised domestic and ecclesiastical struc…

Bob Jones / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Denny Abbey
Denny Abbey
Scheduled monument · ~7.9 mi

Denny Abbey is a Benedictine monastery founded in the early twelfth century in Cambridgeshire, which later became a Franciscan house in the thirteenth century. The site retains substantial remains of the abbey church and associated monastic buildings, including the impressive refectory range whic…

Rob enwiki / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Length of Car Dyke between Green End and Top Moor
Length of Car Dyke between Green End and Top Moor
Scheduled monument · ~8.3 mi

Length of Car Dyke between Green End and Top Moor is a linear earthwork forming part of the Car Dyke system in Cambridgeshire. This section of the dyke dates to the Roman period and represents part of a substantial defensive or territorial boundary that extended across the fenland landscape. The…

Keith Edkins / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Hospital of St John the Baptist and St Mary Magdalene, St John's Farm
Scheduled monument · ~0.3 miles
Roman site near Old Fordey Farm, Barway
Scheduled monument · ~3.3 miles
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