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The Battle of Ethandun

Edington, Wiltshire

Where King Alfred saved England from the Vikings.

In early 878 the Vikings drove King Alfred into hiding in the Somerset marshes. In May he gathered his men at Egbert's Stone, near where King Alfred's Tower now stands, and marched to Ethandun, probably Edington.

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When
May 878
Where
51.2800, -2.1000
Group
Battlefields

Visiting

A memorial stone stands at Bratton Camp, above Edington and near the Westbury White Horse.

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