Burh - Citizendia

The burh wall at Wallingford

A Burh is an Anglo-Saxon name for a fortified town or other defended site, such as a hill fort. A hill fort is a fortified refuge or defended settlement The boundaries of ancient burhs can often still be traced to modern urban borough limits. A 10th century document called the Burghal Hidage cites 30 burhs in Wessex, and 3 in Mercia (then under the domination of the West Saxon kings), built to defend the region against Viking raids. The Burghal Hidage is an Anglo-Saxon document providing a list of Wessex 's fortified burhs West Saxon redirects here For other meanings of Wessex or West Saxon see Wessex (disambiguation. A Viking is one of the Norse ( Scandinavian Explorers Warriors Merchants, and pirates who raided and colonized wide areas Most of these were founded by Alfred the Great, some based on pre-existing Roman structures, some newly built, though some may have been built later. Alfred the Great (also Ælfred from the Old English Ælfrēd ˈælfreːd (c The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial Athelstan granted these burhs the right to mint coinage. The largest were at Winchester, Wallingford and Warwick, and Wallingford and Wareham are the best preserved examples, with substantial ditches and banks still visible. Winchester or Winton ( archaic) is a historic city in southern England, with a population of around 40000 within a radius of its centre Wallingford is a small Market town and Civil parish in the upper Thames Valley in Oxfordshire, England. Warwick (ˈwɒrɪk worrick (silent w in middle is the County town of Warwickshire, England. Wallingford is a small Market town and Civil parish in the upper Thames Valley in Oxfordshire, England. Wareham is a historic Market town and under the name Wareham Town, a Civil parish, in the English county of Dorset. It has been estimated that construction of Wallingford's 9,000 feet of bank would have taken more than 120,000 man hours, and have required 2,400 men to maintain. Burh towns also usually had regular street layouts, some of which are also preserved.

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