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5 days ago · The subsequent history of medieval Shropshire is a chronicle of Welsh incursions and baronial rebellions. In the 13th century the high quality of Shropshire wool brought prosperity to Ludlow, Shrewsbury, and Bridgnorth, the main commercial centres. Shrewsbury became a market for an extensive area, including much of northern Wales.
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3 days ago · Northumberland, historic county and unitary authority of northeastern England. It is England’s northernmost county, bounded to the north by Scotland, to the east by the North Sea, to the west by the administrative county of Cumbria (historic county of Cumberland ), and to the south by the county of Durham. Newcastle was the historic county ...
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2 days ago · In the early 1st millennium B.C., the late Bronze Age, signs of stress appear in society, caused perhaps either by climatic deterioration (fn. 20) and the resulting difficulty in farming the higher ground or by soil exhaustion brought about by heavy exploitation over several centuries. Upland areas, particularly those under arable cultivation ...
2 days ago · It has been suggested that because by the mid-13th century the manor of Birmingham was assessed at 8¾ knight's fees within the barony of Dudley, it had grown very considerably in size and prosperity since the 11th century.
4 days ago · Control of the Menai and access to Anglesey ( Ynys Môn) was crucial for medieval Gwynedd. The history of Gwynedd in the High Middle Ages is a period in the History of Wales spanning the 11th through the 13th centuries. Gwynedd, located in the north of Wales, eventually became the most dominant of Welsh polities during this period.
2 days ago · England. England’s topography is low in elevation but, except in the east, rarely flat. Much of it consists of rolling hillsides, with the highest elevations found in the north, northwest, and southwest. This landscape is based on complex underlying structures that form intricate patterns on England’s geologic map.
May 15, 2024 · In the early 12th century the south-west corner of the town, bounded by Church Street on the north and Church Walk on the south, Head Street on the east, and the town wall on the west, formed the bishop's soke. It contained the church of St. Mary-at-the-Walls, an otherwise unrecorded chapel of St. Andrew, and the bishop's own house, and ...
