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The Five Boroughs or The Five Boroughs of the Danelaw were the five main towns of Danish Mercia (what is now the East Midlands) under the Danelaw. These were Derby, Leicester, Lincoln, Nottingham and Stamford. The first four later became county towns.
The Five Boroughs and the English Midlands in the early 10th century [26] The area occupied by the Danelaw was roughly the area to the north of a line drawn between London and Chester, excluding the portion of Northumbria to the east of the Pennines. [citation needed]
The East Midlands is one of nine official regions of England. ... In about 917 the region was subdivided between Danelaw (Vikings) to the north, and Mercia (Anglo ...
Lincolnshire was important to the Parliamentarians as it provided access between the great arsenal of Hull and the south and the Eastern Association's heartland in the east of England. It also offered a potential starting line for an advance across the English Midlands, cutting the north of England off from the west. [51]
The division of the kingdom into shires or counties was probably done about 800 or even earlier. During the incursions of the Danes the midlands were frequently plundered and laid waste. [12] After the Danish invasions it was included in the Danelaw, whose boundary ran on the south-western boundary of the shire.
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West Midlands – per West Midlands, including southern Cheshire; East Midlands – per East Midlands, less Northamptonshire and mid Lincolnshire; South West – per South West England; East Anglia – Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, northern Essex, southern Lincolnshire; South East – South East England and Greater London with ...
The place name Ancaster is first attested in a 12th-century Danelaw charter from the reign of Henry II, and in a legal document of 1196, where it appears as Anecastre. The name means "the Roman fort of 'Anna'." [8] An excavation by the television programme Time Team in 2002 revealed a cist burial bearing an inscription to the god Viridius.