Searching for the Stafford Burh – Part IV There appears to have been no prolonged human activity or settlement in the crook of the Sow, th...

Searching for the Stafford Burh – Part III If the conjectured Iron Age causeway following the line of the eastern exit from the Stafford ...

Searching for the Stafford Burh – Part II There are over a 1,000 known archaeological sites within this area of Staffordshire, ranging fro...

The Burh: Instrument of War Following the decisive English victory over the Great Heathen Army of Guthrum at the Battle of Ethandun, probab...

Staffordshire 913  are celebrating 1100 years of the founding of the Stafford Burh and planning a day of talks by experts on the Saxon peri...

As my home town of Stafford celebrates 1100 years since its founding by Æthelflæd, The Lady of Mercians this summer, it is with perfect tim...

"913. Here God helping, Æthelflæd, Lady of Mercians, went with all the Mercians to Tamworth and then built the stronghold there early i...