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European Marauding Invaders

The Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD bringing with them the corner stones of civilisation turning villages into towns many of which remain today as our rural and industrial centres connected by a road network across Britain originating in Rome to support the Garrisons on Emperor Hadrian’s Wall.

They left nearly four hundred years leaving behind them an organized prosperous country with law and order established, following over 300 years of peace. This left Britain unprotected from the Scots to the North beyond the Wall and the Angles and Saxons across the channel to the South.

The Anglo Saxons came as the Romans were leaving followed by many migrant farming settlers during the following two centuries, while the Scot’s plundered Northern England across the Wall, as the farming communities slowly demolished it for the pre cut stone to build homes and dry stone walls.

Then the Danes plundered the East Coast for a while in the Ninth Century eventually settling in the coastal regions around York and the southern dales.

While the Vikings after years of raiding the Northumbrian Coast eventually stayed and settled in the Northern Dales and the Cumbrian Lake District.

The influence of these Scandinavian Invaders heard in the local derelicts spoken on Tyneside and in the Northumbrian Border Hills and visibly noticed in the place names such as dale, thwaite, fell, beck and force being Norse for valley, clearing, hill, steam and waterfall.

Then last but not least the Normans invaded in 1066 and stayed after William the Conquer won at the Battle of Hastings. William ordering the compilation of the Doomsday Book in 1086, which formed the first census of the counties, shires, towns and family names throughout southern England.

Roman Britain and After

The Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD on the Kent Coast at Richbrough bringing with them the first keystones of civilisation, by turning villages into town which acted as rural and industrial centres and a road network stretching across Britain to support the garrisons on the Roman Wall built by Emperor Hadrian from Wallsend upon Tyne on the East coast to Carlisle on the Solway firth. The wall was started in 122 AD and took eight years to complete

They came in search of minerals for the home land and left nearly four hundred years later largely disappointed except for large quantities of lead sent back to Rome and other centres of their Empire, leaving behind them an organized prosperous country with law and order established.

They came in search of minerals for the home land and left nearly four hundred years later largely disappointed except for large quantities of lead sent back to Rome and other centres of their Empire, leaving behind them an organized prosperous country with law and order established.

After over 300 years of peace in the early fifth century they had withdrawn back to Rome the Empires Capital which was under threat from other foes intent on building their own Empire. This left Britain unprotected from the Scots to the North beyond the Wall and the Angles and Saxons across the channel to the South.

The Anglo Saxons came as the Romans were leaving followed by many migrant farming settlers during the following two centuries, while the Scot’s to the North plundered Northern England across the then border. As the farming communities slowly demolished the old boundary line, Hadrian’s Wall for the pre cut stone to build homes and mark off territorial boundaries with dry stone walls.

Then the Danes plundered the East Coast for a while in the Ninth Century eventually settling in the coastal regions around York and the southern dales. While the Vikings after years of raiding the Northumbrian Coast eventually stayed and settled in the Northern Dales and the Cumbrian Lake District.

Then last but not least the Normans invaded in 1066 and stayed after William the Conquer won the Battle of Hastings. William was the first to bring organized Taxation to Britain by ordering the compilation of the Doomsday Book in 1086.

The Doomsday Book formed the first census of the counties, shires, towns and family names throughout southern England. The Counties north of York and over the border were not part of his Empire and remained uncounted until the first official census at the start of the nineteenth century some seven hundred years later.

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