Hero
Hereward the Wake
He never yielded.
Stand where it happened
- What's there
- Bourne Abbey church
- Legend from
- Bourne
- Tone
- Heroic
The last English rebel.
Hereward led English resistance to the Normans from the Isle of Ely. Tradition says he was born in or near Bourne. His deeds come from sources such as the Gesta Herewardi, whose truth is disputed.