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Britain was settled by, and came under political dominance from, Germanic-speaking peoples from present-day Germany and Denmark in the early-mid 5th century. [[Cheshire]], much of Shropshire and northern Wales formed a part of the territory of the ''Wreocensæte'' (an Old English name meaning "Wrekin-dwellers"), a people of early [[Anglo-Saxon]] England. The territory had been absorbed by the Anglian kingdom [[Mercia]] in the time of [[Offa|King Offa]] (reigned 757-796 AD). It is likely that, around this time, Shrewsbury was established as a fortified burh.
Britain was settled by, and came under political dominance from, Germanic-speaking peoples from present-day Germany and Denmark in the early-mid 5th century. [[Cheshire]], much of Shropshire and northern Wales formed a part of the territory of the ''Wreocensæte'' (an Old English name meaning "Wrekin-dwellers"), a people of early [[Anglo-Saxon]] England. The territory had been absorbed by the Anglian kingdom [[Mercia]] in the time of [[Offa|King Offa]] (reigned 757-796 AD). It is likely that, around this time, Shrewsbury was established as a fortified burh.
The [[Black Death]] [[bubonic plague]] [[pandemic]] reached Shropshire in c. 1349 and the village of Nash (near Wrockwardine, approximately 2 miles north of the Wrekin) was apparently wiped out in its entirety; the 1349 manorial income for Nash states that the village was unable to pay any tax because "because the inhabitants are dead".
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