Of Gloucester and Sudbury
Tewkesbury Abbey Preamble The coincidence of connections between these distant places have largely affected our national history. Chapter 1 ‘Freedom of the Protected Boroughs and the Vikings’ Vikings from Scandinavia had begun raiding parts of the British Isles during the late eighth century. In most events they found little resistance from a relatively undefended peasantry. A mark in time would be when, in 877 on a reconnoitre, a large contingent visited Gloucester, to find a strong walled but unprotected, almost…