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A History of the County of Chester
… 16 On a smaller scale but similar in planning approach was Mercia Square (1970) in Frodsham Street. A handful of …
A History of the County of Chester
… of the small precinct off Frodsham Street which replaced Mercia Square, demolished in 1989-90. The most blatant piece …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Ethelfleda, daughter of Alfred the Great, and Countess of Mercia, probably about the same time that she built a castle …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… to Stigand, Archbishop of Canterbury, of Algar, Earl of Mercia, with the soc and sac, borderers, and all belonging to …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… it was enumerated among the towns of the Saxon kingdom of Mercia; but at a subsequent period it was included in the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the island, the town being included in the kingdom of Mercia, fell under the dominion of Warremund, who rebuilt it, … records, Ethelfleda, daughter of Alfred, and Countess of Mercia, restored it about the year 913, and built a fort, … Saxon heptarchy, it became part of the powerful kingdom of Mercia, whose sovereigns selected Warwick, Tamworth, and …
A History of the County of Hertford
… of the fifteenth century, was granted by Offa, king of Mercia, to St. Albans Abbey, 22 and though no mention is made … it is stated that the land once belonged to Offa king of Mercia, who gave it to the monastery, but that on his death …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… Hill, near Daventry. Wulfhere, the first Christian king of Mercia, had a palace here, which, after his death, was … to the battle of Cheriton. The seal of lfric, Earl of Mercia in the tenth century, notorious for his treacheries, …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… with five berewicks, was held by Edwin, earl of Mercia (d. 1071). Roger of Montgomery, created earl of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… daughter of King Merwald, and niece of Wulfhere, King of Mercia, who presided as abbess, and at her death was interred … by the Danes, the convent was restored by Leofric, Earl of Mercia, in the time of Edward the Confessor, after which it …