Dan's final walk takes him north, to lands brutally devastated by the Normans four years after the Invasion. The Harrying of the North campaign was the final act that brought the whole of England under Norman control. Dan's walk explores how the area became the setting for one of the Normans' greatest legacies – the abbeys and monasteries of northern England.

From Helmsley Castle to Rievaulx Abbey, Dan investigates how one local lord established an institution that would revolutionise the community and commerce of the moors. With numerous similar abbeys the ambitious Normans would create a new era that defined northern England throughout the Middle Ages.

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