The Weogoran (Old English: "people of the winding river") were a people of Saxon England, a precursor of the minor kingdom of Hwicce. The Weogoran were centred on Worcester (Weogoran ceaster).[1][better source needed] They were probably (though not certainly) West Saxons and occupied the area some time after the defeat of the Britons at the Battle of Dyrham in 577. The settlement was elevated to a bishopric in 680.[2][better source needed]

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Heptarchy

Snotingas Southumbrians Spaldingas Stoppingas Sweordora Tomsæte Undaium Weorgoran Westerne Wreocensæte Northumbria: Elmetsæte Beodarsæte Loidis Sussex:

Hwicce

distinct tribal groups, including the Husmerae, the Stoppingas and the Weorgoran. The first probable kings of whom we read were two brothers, Eanhere and

Caer

Cair Guent ("Fort Venta": Caerwent or Winchester) Cair Guiragon ("Fort Weorgoran": Worcester) Cair Guorthigirn ("Fort Vortigern": Little Doward? Carmarthen

List of early Germanic peoples

Wootton Wawen and the valley of the River Alne in modern-day Warwickshire) Weorgoran (Worcester) Westernas Magonsæte / Magonsætan (roughly in today's Herefordshire

History of Worcestershire

very minor kingdoms or fiefdoms were established, for instance of the Weorgoran, from which it is believed Worcester takes its name. The area now known