The Anglo Saxons came as the Romans were leaving followed by many migrant farming settlers during the following two centuries, while the Scot’s plundered Northern England across the Wall, as the farming communities slowly demolished it for the pre cut stone to build homes and dry stone walls.

Then the Danes plundered the East Coast for a while in the Ninth Century eventually settling in the coastal regions around York and the southern dales.

While the Vikings after years of raiding the Northumbrian Coast eventually stayed and settled in the Northern Dales and the Cumbrian Lake District.

The influence of these Scandinavian Invaders heard in the local dialects spoken on Tyneside and in the Northumbrian Border Hills and visibly noticed in the place names such as dale, thwaite, fell, beck and force being Norse for valley, clearing, hill, steam and waterfall.

Then last but not least the Normans invaded in 1066 and stayed after William the Conquer won at the Battle of Hastings. William ordering the compilation of the Doomsday Book in 1086, which formed the first census of the counties, shires, towns and family names throughout southern England.