Discover Mercia
This Website is still in Construction
Our Mission
With restrictions easing since the Covid-19 pandemic first hit, 2021 has been the year of staycations and discovering the hidden gems on our doorstep.
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The UK is alive with history but it has not always been so digestible to the public and much of it goes unnoticed.
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With our cameras at the ready and a little bit of help from the internet, our goal is to provide an efficient, easy to navigate guide to the historic areas around the midlands, formerly known as Mercia.
What is Mercia?
Mercia was one of the seven kingdoms of Anglo Saxon England that together were known as the Heptarchy. Mercia itself was one of the largest and most powerful of these kingdoms and occupied a sizable portion of central England, known today as the Midlands.
Mercia remained independent for a great many years before Viking invasions upset the balance of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which all eventually merging into the Kingdom of England when Æthelstan of Wessex united the country.
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The name, a Latinised form of the original Mierce came from the Old English 'March' and meant 'The Border People'.
Though we have chosen Mercia as our name we did so to represent the area we plan to investigate, but our historical investigations won't be limited to the timeframe that Mercia existed, only its borders.
