Legend has it that Nico Ditch was completed in a single night by the inhabitants of Manchester, as a protection against Viking invaders in 869–870; Manchester may have been sacked by the Danes in 870.[7] It was said that each man had an allocated area to construct, and was required to dig his section of the ditch and build a bank equal to his own height.[4] According to 19th-century folklore, the ditch was the site of a battle between Saxons and Danes; the battle was supposed to have given the nearby towns of Gorton and Reddish their names, from "Gore Town" and "Red-Ditch",[8][9] but the idea has been dismissed by historians as a "popular fancy".[10] The names derive from "dirty farmstead" and "reedy ditch" respectively.



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