Offa's Dyke

And he said he saw two people in the whole village and they were near the church and he was just trying to get some history.

And outside the Western gate of the church on the right on Offa's Dyke, which was built as a boundary for Wales to keep the English triangles out.

There's a stone sits outside and apparently that stone gave its name to the village.

So name in Welsh means stone and stone in English is stone.

Note.

Offa's Dyke, between Wales and England.

End of note.

His daughter, named Edburga, was married to Bertrick, king of the West Saxons, who immediately, having the king's affections and the control of almost all the kingdom, began to live tyrannically like her father, and to execrate every man whom Bertrick loved, and to do all things hateful to god and man and to accuse all she could before the king and so to deprive them insidiously of their life or power and if she could not obtain the king's consent she used to take them off by poison as is ascertained to have been the case with a certain young man beloved by the king, whom she poisoned, finding that the king would not listen to any accusation against him.

Yeah, it was nice.

So I think I did Offa's Dyke going up it and then coming down, it was quite steep, but also it had all those, you know, those like little, I don't know what they are that fall from trees, like seeds or nuts or something was completely covering the floor.

Pine cones? No, they weren't pine cones.

They were really, they were circular and very hard.

You know what? Don't stay tuned.

Is he go- or is he just taking, you know, a flat route along Offa's Dyke?

We'll let you know later on in the episode.

Well, there we go.

... not a chance in hell.

I needed John to know that despite him being from the other side of Offa's Dyke, perhaps you could start a new feature to bring together other members of the PRS club.

Diolch yn fawr, Dylan.

So there we go.

Uh, i.e. the Burnham bounce seem-- certainly seems to have stopped at Hadrian's Wall.

Indeed, I mean, other data suggests that it a- it's also stopped at O- at Offa's Dike.

Um, uh, you know, it's worth remembering both in Scotland and in Wales, you have to go back to before the First World War to find a worst Labour performance in either of those two countries.

In other words, basically, it was Labour's worst ever performance since they've become a significant national party in both those parts of the UK, and there isn't any clear evidence so far that Labour are recovering from that.

So Wales and England have been, have been sort of, you know, hostile for centuries.

Offa's Dyke is built to keep the, the Welsh out, isn't it?

Offa's Dyke, exactly.

Well, for whatever reason, it, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a line in the sand, isn't it? Um, well, more than that.

But anyway, the Nor- when the Normans arrive, there are Anglo-Saxon rebellions going on, and they are being, they are seeking help, the Anglo-Saxon rebels, from the, the multiple Welsh kingdoms in Wales.

Sometimes recent names get attached.

And I have to ask about Offa's Dyke as well.

Could you give us a little summary of that win?

Well, Offa's Dyke is the boundary between Mercia, one of the kingdoms of early medieval England, what became England, the boundary between Mercia and Wales.

So there's this long boundary.

I mean, it probably fossilizes earlier banks as well.