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Old English-speaking Germanic tribes arrived in Britain in the early-mid 5th century. Present-day Lancashire and Cheshire may have been among the last areas of England to be settled by Germanic speakers. By c. 700 AD, the lands that now make up Lancashire formed a part of the [[Angles|Anglian]] kingdom of [[Northumbria]], with the [[River Mersey]] (now the southern border of Lancashire) forming part of the southern border of that kingdom; indeed the name ''Mersey'' is from Old English ''mæres-ēa'', which means "border river". However, some time in the 8th century, the part of Lancashire between the Ribble and Mersey appears to have become a part of [[Mercia]], the Anglian kingdom broadly co-extensive with the English Midlands.<ref>[https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Journal/cU_WAAAAMAAJ?hl Journal - Lancashire Dialect Society, page 6 (1960) ]</ref>
Old English-speaking Germanic tribes arrived in Britain in the early-mid 5th century. Present-day Lancashire and Cheshire may have been among the last areas of England to be settled by Germanic speakers. By c. 700 AD, the lands that now make up Lancashire formed a part of the [[Angles|Anglian]] kingdom of [[Northumbria]], with the [[River Mersey]] (now the southern border of Lancashire) forming part of the southern border of that kingdom; indeed the name ''Mersey'' is from Old English ''mæres-ēa'', which means "border river". However, some time in the 8th century, the part of Lancashire between the Ribble and Mersey appears to have become a part of [[Mercia]], the Anglian kingdom broadly co-extensive with the English Midlands.<ref>[https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Journal/cU_WAAAAMAAJ?hl Journal - Lancashire Dialect Society, page 6 (1960) ]</ref>
Lancashire's oldest known Christian church was founded in the 8th century at [[Heysham]]. The site is currently occupied by St Peter's Church, the oldest standing parts of which were constructed in the 11th century. Unconfirmed local legend has it that in the 5th century, [[Saint Patrick]] was shipwrecked off Morecambe Bay and built a chapel at the site.
In the early 1070s, a few years after the [[Normans|Norman conquest]] in 1066, the land between the Ribble and Mersey, with the addition of Amounderness, was granted by [[William the Conqueror]] to [[Roger of Poitou]]. On the order of Roger of Poitou, [[motte-and-bailey]] [[castle]] was built at [[Penwortham]] (immediately south of the River Ribble from Preston), to guard the Ribble estuary and a ford crossing the river.
In the early 1070s, a few years after the [[Normans|Norman conquest]] in 1066, the land between the Ribble and Mersey, with the addition of Amounderness, was granted by [[William the Conqueror]] to [[Roger of Poitou]]. On the order of Roger of Poitou, [[motte-and-bailey]] [[castle]] was built at [[Penwortham]] (immediately south of the River Ribble from Preston), to guard the Ribble estuary and a ford crossing the river.