Edington, Wiltshire
Village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 4 mi east-northeast of Westbury.
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Battle of Edington
Army of the kingdom of Wessex under Alfred the Great defeated the Great Heathen Army led by the Dane Guthrum on a date between 6 and 12 May 878, resulting in the Treaty of Wedmore later the same year.
Army of the kingdom of Wessex under Alfred the Great defeated the Great Heathen Army led by the Dane Guthrum on a date between 6 and 12 May 878, resulting in the Treaty of Wedmore later the same year.
Until a scholarly consensus linked the battle site with the present-day village of Edington in Wiltshire, it was known as the Battle of Ethandun.
Westbury, Wiltshire
Town and civil parish in the west of the English county of Wiltshire, below the northwestern edge of Salisbury Plain, about 4 mi south of Trowbridge and a similar distance north of Warminster.
Town and civil parish in the west of the English county of Wiltshire, below the northwestern edge of Salisbury Plain, about 4 mi south of Trowbridge and a similar distance north of Warminster.
Nearby villages are Bratton, Chapmanslade, Dilton Marsh, Edington, Heywood and Hawkeridge, Coulston, and Upton Scudamore; and in Somerset, Rudge and Standerwick.
Coulston
Village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, five miles northeast of the town of Westbury, just north of the B3098 road.
Village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, five miles northeast of the town of Westbury, just north of the B3098 road.
The parish was originally called East Coulston, and until 1934 the theoretical hamlet of West Coulston (immediately adjacent to East Coulston and including the village school) was a part of a tithing of Edington parish, known as Baynton and Coulston.
Charles Ponting
Gothic Revival architect who practised in Marlborough, Wiltshire.
Gothic Revival architect who practised in Marlborough, Wiltshire.
St. Mary, St. Katherine and All Saints' parish church, Edington, Wiltshire: restoration, 1887
Bratton, Wiltshire
Village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, about 2.5 mi east of Westbury.
Village and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire, about 2.5 mi east of Westbury.
The local station was in the adjacent parish of Edington and was called Edington & Bratton; the station closed to passengers in 1952 and to goods in 1963, but the line remains open as part of the Reading to Taunton Line.
Edington Priory
Edington Priory in Wiltshire, England, was founded by William Edington, the bishop of Winchester, in 1351 in his home village of Edington, about 3+3/4 mi east of the town of Westbury.
Stert and Westbury Railway
Opened by the Great Western Railway Company in 1900 in Wiltshire, England.
Opened by the Great Western Railway Company in 1900 in Wiltshire, England.
The station at Edington opened for goods traffic on 29 July 1900, a month before passenger trains were allowed to use the line.
Westbury White Horse
Hill figure on the escarpment of Salisbury Plain, approximately 1.5 mi east of Westbury in Wiltshire, England.
Hill figure on the escarpment of Salisbury Plain, approximately 1.5 mi east of Westbury in Wiltshire, England.
Local legend asserts that the defeated Danes fled down the slopes to the springs that rise between the villages of Bratton and Edington (after which the battle was named), and the slopes on which the white horse is located.
William Edington
English bishop and administrator.
English bishop and administrator.
Edington's parents were Roger and Amice of Edington near Westbury, Wiltshire.
Whorwellsdown Hundred
Hundred of the English county of Wiltshire, lying in the west of the county to the south of the towns of Bradford on Avon and Melksham and to the north and east of Westbury.
Hundred of the English county of Wiltshire, lying in the west of the county to the south of the towns of Bradford on Avon and Melksham and to the north and east of Westbury.
At the time of the Domesday Book (1086), the hundred contained Romsey Abbey's manors of Steeple Ashton and Edington, together with other estates at Edington, Coulston, Keevil, and Tilshead.