Diocese of London United Kingdom London's walls may have been built by the Romans, but when the Vikings encountered them in the tenth and eleventh centuries 'they suffered', as the anonymous Anglo-Saxon chronicler put it, 'more harm and injury than they ever imagined that any town-dwellers would do to them’.

Diocese of London United Kingdom Queenhithe is the only surviving section of the City of London’s ancient riverfront: excavations from here and neighbouring Bull Wharf have revealed evidence of London’s early medieval role in international trade – including the largest concentration of Viking artefacts in Britain outside York.

London United Kingdom Excavations beneath the Royal Opera House have revealed stunning evidence of early London, both the homes and workshops of the inhabitants and also the defensive ditches that may have been built to protect against Viking attacks before the area was abandoned.

London United Kingdom Although it was Edward the Confessor who is most associated with Westminster abbey, the first king of England to be buried there was Harold I ‘Harefoot’, the son of King Cnut. He didn't rest there for long...

Diocese of London United Kingdom St Olaf House stands on the site of an ancient church dedicated to St Olaf. It once stood at the southern end of old London Bridge - a bridge that may have been torn down by a Viking fleet: a fleet commanded by the very same Olaf...

Diocese of London United Kingdom The Church of St Olave on Hart Street is one of London's oldest medieval churches. Known to Dickens as 'Saint Ghastly Grim' and dedicated to a notorious Norwegian king, its likely origins lie in the Viking Age.

Diocese of London United Kingdom Before Devonshire House was the headquarters of the Religious Society of Friends in Britain from 1794 until 1925, it was a large house called Fisher's Folly.

Diocese of London United Kingdom The Gravel Pit Chapel was home to a radical religious congregation, now buried in a walled-off graveyard in Hackney.

Potters Bar United Kingdom Waltham Abbey was the first official Quaker school for boys, established by George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, in 1668.

Diocese of London United Kingdom Shacklewell was the first official Quaker school for girls, established by George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, in 1668.