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A History of the County of Wiltshire
… The oldest firm in the aircraft trade in Wiltshire was the Wessex Aircraft Engineering Co. Ltd., founded at High Post, …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a swineherd in the service of Egwin, third bishop of Wessex, a Saxon province and bishopric, part of which now …
Ewelme Hundred: An Overview
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… when King Offa of Mercia reportedly seized it from Wessex, Benson was emerging as a valuable and strategically … 10961108; though cf. H. Hamerow et al., "The Origins of Wessex Pilot Project', Oxoniensia 78 (2013), 5961; Blair, A-S … and Long Wittenham (formerly Berks.), Hamerow, 'Origins of Wessex', 624. Holmes, 'Benson', 8, 1415; Tiller, Benson, 256; …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 779 when Offa of Mercia, after defeating Cynewulf of Wessex at Benson, allegedly built a fortress on Wytham Hill, … Aethelweard, as a descendant of Ethelred, king of Wessex, was related to both Wynflaed and Aelfheah. 23 … D. Whitelock, A.-S. Wills, pp. 10-15, 108-10, Finberg, Wessex Chart. pp.44, 90. Whitelock, Wills, pp. 22-5, 121-2. …
A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 7
… 97 Electricity, which had been brought to the town by the Wessex Electricity Co. by 1931, 98 was not applied to street …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Although the charter attributed to Cenwalh, King of Wessex, is spurious, a grant of 100 hides is by no means …
A Topographical Dictionary of Wales
… Immediately after the surrender of Chester to EGBERT of Wessex, the whole of the present county of Flint, being an …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset
… over and spread. (No. 151 in O.S. Map of Neolithic Wessex.) d(18) Barrow, 500 yards E. of (17) and 90 yards E. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… in the Saxon Chronicle Fethanleage, where Ceawlin, King of Wessex, obtained a victory over the Britons in 584. The …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… Wilts. iv. 399-400, 417-19, 448, 450-1. Finberg, Early Wessex Chart. p. 72. Ogilby, Brit. (1675), pl. 10; Andrews … edn.). Ashworth, Action Stations, ix. 243. Finberg, Early Wessex Chart. p. 72. D. Whitelock, Anglo-Saxon Wills, p. 23; …