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  2. History of Cornwall - Wikipedia

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    After the collapse of Dumnonia, the remaining territory of Cornwall came into conflict with neighbouring Wessex. By the middle of the ninth century, Cornwall had fallen under the control of Wessex, but it kept its own culture. In 1337, the title Duke of Cornwall was created by the English monarchy, to be held by the king's eldest son and heir.

  3. Wessex - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Hardy used a fictionalised Wessex as a setting for many of his novels, adopting his friend William Barnes' term Wessex for their home county of Dorset and its neighbouring counties in the south and west of England. [46] Hardy's Wessex excluded Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, but the city of Oxford, which he called "Christminster", was ...

  4. 9th century in England - Wikipedia

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    Alfred, son of Æthelwulf of Wessex and Queen Osburh, is born at Wantage. [5] 851. Kentish ships defeat Vikings off Sandwich in the first recorded naval battle in English history. [1] Vikings over-winter in England for the first time, on the Isle of Thanet. [1] 852. Swithun becomes Bishop of Winchester. [1] Probable death of King Beorhtwulf of ...

  5. Timeline of Cornish history - Wikipedia

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    Eventually they passed these over to Wessex kings. However, according to Alfred the Great's will the amount of land he owned in Cornwall was very small. [14] late 9th century: The earliest known example of written Cornish is a gloss in a late 9th century Latin manuscript of De Consolatione Philosophiae by Boethius, which used the words ud ...

  6. Battle of Hingston Down - Wikipedia

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    A map of Britain during the middle of the 9th century, including a map of the location of the Anglo Saxon battle with Danes at Hingston Down, and its predecessor the battle of Carhampton The Battle of Hingston Down took place in 838, probably at Hingston Down in Cornwall between a combined force of Cornish and Vikings on the one side, and West ...

  7. Historic counties of England - Wikipedia

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    Kingdom of Sussex emerged in the 5th century and subsumed into an Anglo-Saxon shire of Wessex in 9th century. 13 Warwickshire: County of Warwick Warks, [93] War, [92] Warw [94] 24 Westmorland: Westm [94] 29 The Barony of Kendal and the Barony of Westmorland were formed into the single county of Westmorland in 1226-7. Wiltshire: County of Wilts

  8. List of towns and cities in England by historical population

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    Kingdoms in England and Wales about 600 AD. Urban sites were on the decline from the late Roman period and remained of very minor importance until around the 9th century. The largest cities in later Anglo-Saxon England however were Winchester, London and York, in that order, although London had eclipsed Winchester by the 11th century. Details ...

  9. History of Anglo-Saxon England - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Wessex controlled part of the Midlands and the whole of the South (apart from Cornwall, which was still held by the Britons), while the Danes held East Anglia and the North. [ 100 ] After the victory at Edington and resultant peace treaty, Alfred set about transforming his Kingdom of Wessex into a society on a full-time war ...