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Local History

A ‘frontier’ settlement of possibly Romano-British origin on the northern borders between the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia and the Viking Danelaw after Alfred’s treaty of  886 A.D. – Austrey has an interesting history…..

Go to http://www.tamworthcastle.freeserve.co.uk/opening1.htm for a good time-line for Tamworth.

Go to http://www.polesworthvillage.org.uk/polsoc/timeline.html for a focus on Polesworth.

Appleby has an excellent history site http://www.applebymagna.org.uk/appleby_history/

Stop Press

We have recently gained access to some wonderful historical research on Austrey. While we intend to properly organise this information we decided to publish a small part to give people a taster.

So click Local History 'preview' in the left column to have a first look.

Steve Hamilton has now passed the information over for publication on our web. See 'AR intro' link in the left column for some background of where the information comes from.