• Thumbnail for Offa's Dyke
    Offa's Dyke (Welsh: Clawdd Offa) is a large linear earthwork that roughly follows the border between England and Wales. The structure is named after Offa...
    24 KB (2,953 words) - 13:43, 1 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Offa's Dyke Path
    Offa's Dyke Path (Welsh: Llwybr Clawdd Offa) is a long-distance footpath loosely following the Wales–England border. Officially opened on 10 July 1971...
    10 KB (936 words) - 12:56, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Offa of Mercia
    information for Offa's reign. Offa's Dyke, most of which was probably built in his reign, is a testimony to the extensive resources Offa had at his command...
    69 KB (9,263 words) - 21:12, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for England–Wales border
    followed broadly the same line since the 8th century, and in part that of Offa's Dyke; the modern boundary was fixed in 1536, when the former marcher lordships...
    50 KB (5,340 words) - 15:36, 10 June 2024
  • Lincoln Offa's Dyke, historic earthwork dividing Mercia and Wales Wansdyke (earthwork), dividing Wessex from the lands south west of it Wat's Dyke, An earthwork...
    2 KB (302 words) - 00:28, 18 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Wat's Dyke
    on to Maesbury in Shropshire, England. It runs generally parallel to Offa's Dyke, sometimes within a few yards but never more than three miles (5 km)...
    7 KB (771 words) - 23:31, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wall of Severus
    Wall and Offa's Dyke have both been suggested as possible candidates. Archaeological evidence has been discovered showing parts of Offa's Dyke, on the...
    8 KB (1,093 words) - 17:39, 17 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ruabon
    Ruabon (section Offa's Dyke)
    owned by John Cory & Sons of Cardiff. Substantial remains of Offa's Dyke (Welsh: Clawdd Offa) can be seen on the western outskirts of Ruabon. This massive...
    23 KB (2,830 words) - 21:13, 7 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chirk Castle
    on Offa's and Wat's Dyke", Current Archaeology (358) Belford, Paul (2019). "Hidden Earthworks: Excavation and Protection of Offa's and Wat's Dykes". Offa's...
    11 KB (1,077 words) - 00:10, 18 June 2024
  • earthwork Offa's Dyke. There are 107 scheduled monuments in the county borough. The 29 Bronze Age and Iron Age sites are mainly found to the west of Offa's dyke...
    77 KB (2,280 words) - 08:36, 3 April 2023
  • borderlands as much as Offa's Dyke, a stronger and longer boundary earthwork erected by order of Offa of Mercia between AD 757 and 796. The Dyke still exists,...
    25 KB (2,452 words) - 12:11, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gladestry
    Census. The community includes Newchurch and Michaelchurch-on-Arrow. Offa's Dyke Path passes through the village and there are various footpaths and bridleways...
    2 KB (232 words) - 16:00, 21 May 2022
  • Way in Wales Hadrian's Wall Path in England North Downs Way in England Offa's Dyke Path in Wales and England Peddar's Way and Norfolk Coast Path in England...
    2 KB (205 words) - 20:39, 9 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Knighton, Powys
    Radnorshire. Originally an Anglo-Saxon settlement, Knighton is located on Offa's Dyke, the ancient earthwork that divided the two countries. It later became...
    43 KB (3,678 words) - 19:58, 2 April 2024
  • the Offa's Dyke path 20 years earlier. The film begins with a flashback to 20 years earlier, with four friends celebrating after completing the Offa's Dyke...
    1 KB (77 words) - 05:45, 5 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Dan Llywelyn Hall
    Square Gardens. In 2021, Hall was involved in a campaign to save parts of Offa's Dyke. In 2009 Hall was one of 51 exhibitors in the 2009 BP Portrait Award...
    9 KB (754 words) - 03:39, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kingdom of Powys
    Offa of Mercia seems to have continued this consultive initiative when he created a larger earth work, now known as Offa's Dyke (Welsh: Clawdd Offa)...
    34 KB (4,163 words) - 00:46, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Newcastle, Shropshire
    and very rural Clun Forest, part of the Shropshire Hills AONB. Offa's Dyke and Offa's Dyke Path run through the area. The parish forms part of the Clun...
    4 KB (370 words) - 16:19, 6 September 2022
  • Thumbnail for Devil's Pulpit, Gloucestershire
    bank in Monmouthshire, Wales. Access is from the Offa's Dyke Path, and the site is close to the Offa's Dyke earthwork itself. It is possible to climb up onto...
    2 KB (158 words) - 08:25, 10 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bedford
    thought to have been the burial place of King Offa of Mercia, who is remembered for building Offa's Dyke on the Welsh border. Bedford Castle was built...
    52 KB (4,939 words) - 03:45, 28 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of walls
    Dobruja, Romania Athanaric's Wall, Romania Wat's Dyke parallel, for part of the distance, to Offa's Dyke, England:Wales. Atlantic Wall in Nazi-occupied...
    12 KB (891 words) - 20:23, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Levee
    Levee (redirect from Dyke (construction))
    given to either the excavation or to the bank. Thus Offa's Dyke is a combined structure and Car Dyke is a trench – though it once had raised banks as well...
    28 KB (3,611 words) - 15:49, 2 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wales
    created a larger earthwork, now known as Offa's Dyke (Clawdd Offa). Davies wrote of Cyril Fox's study of Offa's Dyke: "In the planning of it, there was a...
    217 KB (21,658 words) - 10:09, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Earthworks (archaeology)
    present. The structures can also stretch for many tens of miles (e.g. Offa's Dyke and Antonine Wall). In area, they can cover many hectares; for example...
    14 KB (1,578 words) - 19:39, 20 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clwydian Range
    which has invaded the Alyn Valley area. The Offa's Dyke Path follows the Clwydian Range, although Offa's Dyke itself was not constructed on it. The Clwydian...
    10 KB (718 words) - 19:46, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for House of Aberffraw
    Mercia from the 7th century onwards. This led to the construction of Offa's Dyke, a territorial land border between England and Wales built in the mid...
    24 KB (2,837 words) - 22:14, 14 June 2024
  • Cadw SAM: MG151: Offa's Dyke: Cwm Section coflein NPRN: not yet identified. CPAT PRN not yet identified. Cadw SAM: MG039: Offa's Dyke: Mellington Hall...
    73 KB (2,619 words) - 03:33, 9 April 2022
  • Thumbnail for Sedbury
    side of the southern end of Offa's Dyke, a defensive ditch and dyke built in the late 8th century by Anglo Saxon King Offa of Mercia to mark the border...
    6 KB (602 words) - 16:40, 12 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Oswestry
    believed to have healing properties, particularly for curing eye trouble. Offa's Dyke runs near the well, to the west. This interpretation is supported by...
    64 KB (6,752 words) - 11:34, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shropshire Hills National Landscape
    as the border stronghold of one of the Marcher Lords, Roger de Lacy. Offa's Dyke, a massive linear earthwork, also runs through the area, and across the...
    8 KB (720 words) - 19:40, 21 May 2024