From these conquests over the Britons Offa turned to build up again the realm which had been shattered at Burford.

But his progress was slow.

A reconquest of Kent in 775 woke anew the jealousy of the West-Saxons; and though Offa defeated their army at Bensington in 779 the victory was followed by several years of inaction.

It was not till Wessex was again weakened by fresh anarchy that he was able in 794 to seize East-Anglia and restore his realm to its old bounds under Wulfhere.

Further he could not go.