Commemorative monolith in Dore Village
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Commemorative monolith in Dore Village
Image: © Graham Hogg Taken: 25 Oct 2020
The Dore Village Society's website has this to say: "The importance of Dore was its position on the boundary of the Anglo Saxon kingdoms of Mercia, recently conquered by King Ecgbert of Wessex, and Northumbria, the second most powerful kingdom. At the time, Northumbria was under pressure from viking raids and unable to fight on two fronts, leading to the acceptance of Ecgbert as overlord and effectively the first king of all England. The event is commemorated on the village green by a gritstone monolith with a black granite plaque in the shape of a Saxon shield, appropriately emblazoned by a Wyvern, the war emblem of Wessex." For the wording on the plaque see Image
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Image Location
Latitude
53.326105
Longitude
-1.537986