What the records say
- When
- 1069 – 1070
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 100,000
- Coordinates
- 55.00° N, 2.30° W
- Description
- series of campaigns waged by William the Conqueror in the winter of 1069–70
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Harrying of the North
Military campaign in England, 1069–1070
The Harrying of the North was a series of military campaigns waged by William the Conqueror in the winter of 1069–1070 to subjugate Northern England, where the presence of the last Wessex claimant, Edgar Ætheling, had encouraged Anglo-Saxon Northumbrian, Anglo-Scandinavian and Danish rebellions.
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