Wirral Viking Festivals – Thelwall
Wirral Viking Festivals – Thelwall
Organiser
Wirral Vikings – Wirhalh Skip Felagr – The Wirral Ship Fellowship
Merseyside’s leading Viking, Saxon and Norman re-enactment group
Wirhalh Skip Felagr focuses primarily upon the Hiberno Norse Vikings who settled the Wirral in 902AD.
We also portray several other nationalities from the “Viking Period” including:
- Saxon
- Dane
- Brythonic
- Norman
- Angevine
Our services include:
- Talks on the period
- Educational Visits
- Combat Re-enactment
- Craft displays
- Experimental Archaeology
- Film Work
To find out more about what we do or to book us for a talk/event etc please contact us
Venue
Chaigeley Field, Thelwall Village, Bell Lane, Near Warrington, WA4 2XS
Thelwall nowadays borders the villages of Lymm and Grappenhall, and (across the Manchester Ship Canal) Latchford. It is also one of the two principal settlements of Grappenhall and Thelwall civil parish. According to the 2001 census, the population of the entire civil parish was 9,377.
Thelwall is perhaps best known for the Thelwall Viaduct, which carries the M6 Motorway across the Manchester Ship Canal and opened in July 1963 (a second viaduct was added in 1996). The village is between the Ship Canal and the Bridgewater Canal, and on the east–west A56 and B5157. To the east, between the village and the M6, is Statham.
A fortified village was established at Thelwall in 923, in the reign of King Edward the Elder, which is mentioned in two very early sources, including the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: