Tamworth began as a Saxon settlement; Offa built a palace at Tamworth and regarded Tamworth as the capital of Mercia. It was burned by the Danes in 874 and rebuilt in 913 by Ethelfleada with a forified building surrounded by a ditch and an earth rampart. The Normans built a castle at Tamworth, which has stood guard over the town ever since. The present castle has display rooms from many of the different times in the castle history and its famous inhabitants including Robert Peel whose statue stands in front of the Market Hall.
The church of St. Editha also dates from the Saxon time though most of the church is mid- to late-14th-century and 15th-century work with some 19th-century additions.
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