WHEN the invading Danes were rampaging round England in the 9th century, King Alfred ordered a number of towns in the south of the country to be protected by earth walls. Today, those walls survive in any sort of state of preservation in only two places: Wallingford in Oxfordshire and,
more visibly, Wareham.
Fast forward a couple of centuries and the Normans had taken the place …
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