[2] Repton is close to the county boundary with neighbouring Staffordshire and about 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Burton upon Trent.

Christianity was reintroduced to the Midlands at Repton, where some of the Mercian royal family under Peada were baptised in AD 653.

The first indications of Viking presence at Repton were discovered by accident in the late 17th century by Thomas Walker who found a pit of bones in the vicarage garden.

In more recent times the view that the entire Viking army spent the winter in this small (0.4 ha.)

[4] A new set of excavations led by Cat Jarman and Mark Horton began in 2015 with a geophysical survey of the vicarage conducted which revealed new structures.

Forensic study revealed that the individuals ranged in age from their late teens to about forty, 80% were male where sex could be determined.

[9] The church is notable for its Anglo-Saxon crypt, which was built in the 8th century AD[10] as a mausoleum for the Mercian royal family.

[11] The 8th-century crypt beneath the church was the original burial place of Saint Wigstan, as well as his grandfather, King Wiglaf of Mercia.