The Arosæte were an

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons were a Cultural identity, cultural group who inhabited England in the Early Middle Ages. They traced their origins to settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century. However, the ethnogenesis of the Anglo- ...

tribe that lived in the Kingdom of Mercia. According to the historian D. P. Kirby Kirby, D. P. (2001) ''The Earliest English Kings''; 2nd ed. New York: Routledge (1st ed. London: Unwin Hyman, 1991) the Arosæte territory, valued at 600 hides by the

Tribal Hidage Image:Tribal Hidage 2.svg, 400px, alt=insert description of map here, The tribes of the Tribal Hidage. Where an appropriate article exists, it can be found by clicking on the name. rect 275 75 375 100 w:Elmet rect 375 100 450 150 w:Hatfield Ch ...

, probably followed the valleys of the two River Arrows, the Worcestershire Arrow which stretches from south Warwickshire to Worcestershire and the Herefordshire Arrow in Herefordshire and Powys. With the

Weorgoran The Weorgoran (Old English: "people of the winding river") were a people of Saxon England, a precursor of the minor kingdom of Hwicce. The Weorgoran were centred on Worcester ('). They were probably (though not certainly) West Saxons and occupi ...

to the southwest, and other tribes to the north and east, their territory may have been close to Droitwich.

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