Anglo Saxons ploughing

Glossop’s Domesday Villages

Ploughing with oxen from the Anglo-Saxon Calendar. Courtesy of British Library, Shelfmark: Cotton Tiberius B. V, Part 1

There were people here in the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, but there are now few traces of them. Then the Romans marched in, but left little to see apart from Melandra. Then, about 1400 years ago, the Anglo-Saxons arrived – and the evidence is all around us…

Part 1 – New Overlords

Part 2 – Clearings in the Woods

Part 3 – All Is Waste

Part 4 – Dinting, Chisworth and Chunal

Part 5 – Hadfield and Padfield

Part 6 – Tintwistle, Arnfield and Crowden

Part 7 – Charlesworth and Simmondley

Part 8 – Whitfield

Part 9 – (Old) Glossop

END OF SERIES

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