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Kings Fitness & Leisure, situated on the grounds of the Kings of Wessex School, provides a venue for various sports and includes a 20-metre swimming pool, racket sport courts, a sports hall, dance studios and a gym. [108] A youth sports festival was held on Sharpham Road Playing Fields in 2009. [109]
The King Alfred Leisure Centre is a leisure centre on Hove seafront in the city of Brighton and Hove in England. The complex, which includes a ballroom, sports halls and swimming pools, is owned by Brighton and Hove City Council and operated by Freedom Leisure. [1] The centre is colloquially known by some locals as the "Devil Tower".
23rd King of Wessex 858–860: Æthelberht c. 835 –865 24th King of Wessex 860–865: Æthelred I c. 847 –871 25th King of Wessex 865–871: Alfred the Great c ...
He gave each of his Wessex counties a fictionalised name, such as with Berkshire, which is known in the novels as "North Wessex". [citation needed] In the book and television series The Last Kingdom, Wessex is the primary setting, focusing on the rule of Alfred the Great and the war against the Vikings. [47] Wessex remains a common term for the ...
There is some evidence that Ælfweard of Wessex may have been king in 924, between his father Edward the Elder and his half brother Æthelstan, although he was not crowned. A 12th-century list of kings gives him a reign length of four weeks, though one manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says he died only 16 days after his father. [7]
A wooden "great hall" was constructed around the reign of King Alfred the Great (died 899 AD) and the "community at Cheddar" received a special mention in his will. [4] At this time the building served as a minster. [5] [6] It was rebuilt around 930 and a chapel and other buildings were added, becoming a royal hunting lodge. [5]
Kings of Wessex Academy Selects Aruba ClearPass to Enhance e-Learning and Enable BYOD Aruba deploys secure wireless network across school campus for teaching and student bodies SUNNYVALE, Calif ...
Many of the kings of Wessex and of England (including Egbert, king of Wessex from 802 until his death in 839), as well bishops, had been buried in the Old Minster, [7] so their bodies were exhumed and re-interred in the new building. The Old Minster was excavated in the 1960s.