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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.
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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
dialects
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.
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