My column this month is on one of the least-known ‘great sites’ of all: Offa’s Dyke, the linear earthwork that stretches ...

There are a number of relatively similar versions of his life written not earlier than two centuries after his death. His martyrdom was first recorded by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle under 794, which ...

An earth structure, it was built by King Offa of Mercia, and at 270km long, it passed through Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Montgomeryshire, Shropshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire.

An earth structure, it was built by King Offa of Mercia, and at 270km long, it passed through Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Montgomeryshire, Shropshire, Denbighshire and Flintshire.

On reaching the Welsh mountains, English expansion became a spent force, a fact which Offa, King of Mercia, recognised. There is evidence that, in about 780, he ordered the building of a dyke from ...

On reaching the Welsh mountains, English expansion becames a spent force, a fact which Offa, King of Mercia, recognised. In about AD 780 he ordered the building of a dyke from sea to sea.

It was the original barrier built by King Offa of Mercia in the eighth Century, and can still be seen today. So, we set off ...