Edington, Wiltshire and Related Topics

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Coulston

Village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, five miles northeast of the town of Westbury, just north of the B3098 road.

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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.

Memorial to the Battle of Ethandun erected in 2000 near the hillfort of Bratton Castle.

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.

King Alfred's Tower (1772) on one supposed site of Egbert's Stone, the mustering place before the battle

A 1722 copy of part of Asser's Life of King Alfred

Extract from Domesday Book showing Edington as Edendone

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.

Bratton, Wiltshire

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.

Hundreds of Cornwall in the early 19th century

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.

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.

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.

Westbury White Horse

Hill figure on the escarpment of Salisbury Plain, approximately 1.5 mi east of Westbury in Wiltshire, England.

An autumnal view of Westbury White Horse on the edge of Bratton Castle

Viewed from near the edge of Bratton Downs before the surface treatment of 2007

The horse in 2012 less than 4 years after restoration

Westbury White Horse in 1772 (Top) and as re-cut in 1778 (Bottom) as illustrated by Plenderleath.

Flag of the Electorate of Hanover, which may have inspired Westbury White Horse soon after the Hanoverian dynasty inherited the British throne.

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.