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.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42645 or http://www.visitoruk.com/historydetail.php?id=50965&cid=592&f=Tamworth for a good summary.
• 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/

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 please browse through the articles down the right hand side. You will find the new information arriving step by step - for the first bit see 17th Century Introduction page.