Regional948 CE

Battle of Castleford

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
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United Kingdom

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Battle of Castleford (948), part of the Viking Wars in Britain. Vikings defeated Northumbria.

Belligerents2

Vikings
Northumbria

Conflict graph

PART OFViking Invasions of England

Sources

HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)

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Cite as: Battle of Castleford (948 CE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-castleford · Sources & methodology