- in 1897,
cites thirty burhs in Wes**** and
three in Mercia. At the time,
Mercia was
ruled by the West
Saxon kings.
These burhs were all
built to defend...
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building a
system of
fortified towns or forts,
known as
burhs, in
response to the
Viking threat.
These burhs included former Roman towns (where
stone walls were...
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defence system was a
network of
burhs,
distributed at
tactical points throughout the kingdom.
There were thirty-three
burhs,
about 30
kilometres (19 miles)...
-
Bamburgh Castle, on the
northeast coast of England, by the
village of
Bamburgh in Northumberland, is a
Grade I
listed building. The site was originally...
-
northern burh might have been of
approx 3100 ft (c. 750 hides), and the
Edwardian burh of
around 2700 ft (c. 650 hides). The
following burhs were not...
-
England (3rd edition.
Oxford U. P. 1971).
Monarchs of Britain, Encyclopædia
Britannica ogdoad.force9.co.uk: The
Burghal Hidage – Wes****'s
fortified burhs...
-
impetus to the
urban development of the
burhs which hitherto had been
mainly forts.[citation needed] The
burhs drew
commerce by
every channel; the camp...
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Other common Anglo-Saxon
suffixes included ham 'home',
stede 'stead', and
burh 'bury, borough, burgh'. In
toponymic terminology,
names of
individual towns...
- a
powerful system of
fortified towns known as
burhs.
Alfred mainly used old
Roman cities for his
burhs, as he was able to
rebuild and
reinforce their...
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during the
reign of
Alfred the Great, who set up 33
fortified towns (or
burhs) in his
kingdom of Wes****. The
amount of
taxation required to
maintain each...
