Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Anglo-Saxon city walls were maintained by a share of taxes on a local market and streets, in an agreement reinforced by a royal charter. After the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century a motte and bailey castle was constructed on the south side of the city, but the Norman rulers continued to use the older burh walls, despite the ...
Originally built by the Romans in circa 200 AD, there were four gateways which were dismantled in the 18th and 19th centuries. The walls were repaired and rebuilt during the Anglo-Saxon, medieval and Civil War periods and the city was besieged at least twice. Several turrets and bastions in the wall are of uncertain date. [38] Frome: Somerset ...
Cemeteries from this early Anglo-Saxon period have been found at Mitcham, Greenwich, Croydon, and Hanwell. [4] Rather than occupy the abandoned, overgrown Roman city, Anglo-Saxons at first preferred to settle outside the walls, only venturing inside to scavenge or explore. One Saxon poet called the Roman ruins "the work of giants". [5]
Bath's city walls (also referred to as borough walls) were a sequence of defensive structures built around the city of Bath in England.Roman in origin, then restored by the Anglo-Saxons, and later strengthened in the High medieval period, the walls formed a complete circuit, covering the historic core of the modern city, an area of approximately 23 acres (9.3 ha) [2] including the Roman Baths ...
The city walls retained the older system of Roman and Anglo-Saxon gates. West Gate was rebuilt around 1380 by the prominent mason, Henry Yevele, an unusually prominent architect for a city wall programme. [62] As part of this work, Holy Cross Church was moved from over the gate to a nearby site. [63]
Southampton's town walls are a sequence of defensive structures built around the town in southern England. Although earlier Roman and Anglo-Saxon settlements around Southampton had been fortified with walls or ditches, the later walls originate with the move of the town to the current site in the 10th century. This new town was defended by ...
Also notable is the reduction in importance of Winchester, the Anglo-Saxon capital city of Wessex. Although not a direct measure of population, the lay subsidy rolls of 1334 can be used as a measure of both a settlement's size and stature and the table gives the 30 largest towns and cities in England according to that report. [12]
The city's medieval bridge was demolished and rebuilt further downstream in 1771-80, [68] and in 1771 a new infirmary was opened on the northern edge of the city at Castle Street. [69] Large stretches of the city walls had been removed by 1796, [28] which allowed for continued urban expansion along Foregate Street, The Tything, and Upper ...