St Wystan's Church, Repton, Derbyshire, looking ESE at old course & S bank of River Trent: the great Viking army encamped here winter 873-4.

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St Wystan's Church, Repton, looking ESE at the old course & S bank of the River Trent. In the winter of 873-4 the great Viking army created a D-shaped camp using the river bluff & a deep ditch as defences. The Anglo-Saxon monastery & church, with its mausoleum of the Mercian royal family, was incorporated in the camp's southern defences. The present tower & spire are C15th Perpendicular.

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Size: 4961px × 3870px
Location: St Wystan's Church, Repton, South Derbyshire, England, UK
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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