The Forest of Mercia lies within the northernmost boundary of the more ancient and well-known Forest of Arden which covered the area when it formed part...
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Forest County Durham Hamsterley Forest Lancashire Gisburn Forest Northumberland Kielder Forest Yorkshire Dalby Forest Wykeham Forest Forest of Mercia...
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Arden, Warwickshire (redirect from Forest of Arden)
here for safe passage through the forest. Thorkell of Arden, a descendant of the ruling family of Mercia, was one of the few major English landowners who...
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England's community forests are afforestation-based regeneration projects which were established in the early 1990s. Each of them is a partnership between...
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Hwicce (redirect from Rulers of Hwicce)
577, after the Battle of Deorham. After 628, the kingdom became a client or sub-kingdom of Mercia as a result of the Battle of Cirencester. The Tribal...
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Around 790 the Saxon King Offa of Mercia built his dyke high above the Wye, but the area was still claimed by the Kingdom of Gwent and Morgannwg before it...
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Sherwood Forest is the remnants of an ancient royal forest in Nottinghamshire, England, having a historic association with the legend of Robin Hood. The...
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Chasewater (category Articles using infobox body of water without pushpin map alt)
Chasewater led to the building of the £1.9 million Forest of Mercia Innovation Centre in 2000 and the restoration of the Chasewater Railway as a heritage...
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Wessex (redirect from Kingdom of Wessex)
subsequently passed to a series of kings with unknown genealogies. During the 8th century, as the hegemony of Mercia grew, Wessex largely retained its...
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Midlands (redirect from Mercia (modern))
broadly to the early-medieval kingdom of Mercia, and later became important in the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries. They are now...
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