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Own work Incorporates elements of this map. Locations are based on the Ordinance Survey Atlas of Great Britain , apart from Selwood Forest, which is taken from Barbara Yorke, Wessex in the Early Middle Ages , 1995, p. 23, ISBN 0 7185 1856 X
Unification of England and Defeat of the Danelaw in the 10th century under Wessex. After the invasions of the 890s, Wessex and English Mercia continued to be attacked by the Danish settlers in England, and by small Danish raiding forces from overseas, but these incursions were usually defeated, while there were no further major invasions from ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
A map of places named in the Burghal Hidage. The Burghal Hidage (/ ˈ b ɜːr ɡ əl ˈ h aɪ d ɪ dʒ /) is an Anglo-Saxon document providing a list of over thirty fortified places (), the majority being in the ancient Kingdom of Wessex, and the taxes (recorded as numbers of hides) assigned for their maintenance. [1]