Hallaton Bottle Kicking event took place Easter Monday and saw residents of the villages of Hallaton and Medbourne competing ...

Most villages in England were not further than a day’s walk from a large church and castle. The king and the church dominated people’s lives, especially if they were one of the eight in ten ...

The Saxons named the town Dornwaraceaster (the suffix - ceaster being the Old English name for a "Roman town"; cf. Exeter and Gloucester and Dornsæte came into use as the name for the inhabitants of ...

Here are some of the Old English names for places around Oxfordshire: The name “Oxford” comes from the Old English Oxenaforda, meaning “ford of the oxen”. This refers to a shallow crossing in the ...

Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to be ‘King of all England’. One story tells how King Cnut stood on the shore and ...