Repton
is really Repton and St Wystan's Church, Derbyshire
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
A Mercian royal town with a stone church and a timber-walled camp by the river.
The real place
The Great Heathen Army spent the winter of 873 to 874 at Repton, and Burgred of Mercia fled abroad. Archaeologists found the army's camp around St Wystan's Church and a large Viking burial nearby. The church's crypt held the tombs of Mercian kings.
Visiting
The Anglo-Saxon crypt under St Wystan's is one of the best preserved in England; it is usually open when the church is.
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