Saxon warriors will bring Epsom’s past back to life in a live-action history day this month.

There will be living history displays, weaving, braiding, weapons handling, skirmish combat, warrior training, coin striking, candle rolling, live music and storytelling at Bourne Hall museum’s Echoes of the Past.

Visitors to Rosebery Park on Saturday, May 28, will be able to discover how people in Saxon Epsom prepared to face the Vikings at the battle for London in 1016.

In May 1016, King Cnut, leader of the Scandinavian forces, anchored at Greenwich with his fleet of 160 ships, and besieged London.

By 1018 he had taken hold of all England when the Danes and the English reached an agreement at Oxford.

The event will also be a chance for residents to meet the people who gave Epsom its name.

The town’s name was recorded as ‘Ebba’s ham’ – Ebba was believed to be a Saxon landowner, and ‘ham’ is believed to refer to ‘home’– in Anglo-Saxon England, a period which ran from around the sixth century, through to 1066.

Echoes of the past takes place in Rosebery Park, Epsom, on Saturday, May 28.

Adults’ entry costs £5 and children under 12 go free.

For more information, contact David Brooks at Bourne Hall Museum on 020 8394 1734, or email dbrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk