Where did Harold of England fight William of Normandy in 1066?
1066 Country Walk of the South Downs. It links with the Saxon Shore Way. 1066 Country Walk The 1066 Country Walk is a waymarked long-distance footpath or recreational walk in southern England, United Kingdom. The 1066 Country Walk runs for . The route commemorates 1066, the year of the Battle of Hastings, and seeks to link the places and the people of that important year. It runs through East Sussex from Pevensey where William of Normandy gathered his invading army of Normans and prepared to meet King Harold to Rye, East Sussex, passing through Battle, East Sussex. The walk is mainly low level
History of the Jews in England (1066–1290) History of the Jews in England (1066–1290) The history of the Jews in England goes back to the reign of William I where the first written record of Jewish settlement in England dates from 1070. There is no record of Jews in England before the Norman Conquest in 1066. The few references to Jews in the Anglo-Saxon laws of the Roman Catholic Church relate to Jewish practices about Easter. Believing that their commercial skills and incoming capital would make England more prosperous, William I (William the Conqueror) invited a group of Jewish merchants from Rouen, in Normandy, to England in