Thursday, 4 August 2011

Viking Chester I

Although we think of Chester as a Roman settlement, actually in about 900AD it was in an extremely important trading position, as it was where Danelaw met Mercia and Wales (see map), and there is evidence of a sizeable Viking settlement in Bridge St.  The photo below shows St Olave (or Olaf) Street, around where the Vikings would largely have been based.






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