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Athelstan achieved a decisive victory for Wessex at Brunanburgh in 937, when a coalition of Irish, Norse, Scots and Northumbrians were defeated.
In 875, Alfred went to sea with a small naval force and on the south coast of Wessex met 7 Viking longships and defeated them.
The plan is that one day the Wilts and Berks canal will allow boats to cruise what is known as the Wessex Waterway Network.
Wessex Water spokesman Ian Martin said the smell had been coming from sewers and road gulleys in the village.
People living in Wessex Gardens fear the school building proposed for an elevated position on a tall embankment will totally overwhelm them.
From nearly 50 years of complex warfare the house of Wessex had emerged triumphant.
The Danes have left Wessex, and have set up in Lundenwic, and have sworn on their most sacred talismans to leave us.
The witenagemot chose Harold, earl of Wessex, although his only claim to the throne was his availability.
Wilfrid was spokesman for the visiting Frankish bishop Agilbert from Wessex, and his priest Agatho, main advocates for Rome.
Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Queen Sonja of Norway were accompanied by Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg and the Earl of Wessex.
The last act of the witenagemot in England was to choose Harold, Earl of Wessex, as King in 1066, a fatal choice.
The contact between Cretaceous Chalk and Palaeogene siliciclastic sediments is a megasequence boundary within the fill of the Wessex Basin.
The English were in the overall command of Charles, Lord Cornwallis, a gentleman from Wessex.
The Earl and Countess of Wessex are also expected today and tomorrow, while the Princess Royal is due at York Racecourse on Thursday and Friday.
The Jutes settled in Kent, the Saxons in Essex, Sussex, Middlesex and Wessex, and the Angles everywhere else.
Quite simply, the depredations of the Danes aided Wessex by extinguishing all other royal lineages.
A spokeswoman for Wessex Water said there was no choice but to pump diluted sewage into rivers.
He defended the Kingdom of Wessex from Viking raids and in 878 he defeated the Danes in the Battle of Ethandune near Westbury.
Within the Wessex Formation there are two beds of potential stratigraphic significance.
John also played the euphonium and the tuba with the Wiltshire Constabulary's band and the Wessex Wind Band.
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Every shire in Wessex had they cruelly marked with burning and with harrying.
The witenagemot of Wessex was held at Dorchester three times in the 9th century, and in 958 thelstan held a council here.
Guthrum was baptized, and the Treaty of Wedmore secured the clearance of Wessex.
The men of the Wessex Fusiliers are determined and well-disciplined fellows.
Has the British soldier, one wonders, yet discovered Rudyard Kipling, or is the Wessex peasant aware of Thomas Hardy?
When Mercia became subject to Wessex it was ruled by an alderman.
Employees from Wessex Garages in Hadfield Road, Cardiff, took part in the George Thomas Hospice Care Charity 5K run at Bute Park.
A new company headed by John Sands has completed a seven-figure deal to buy the Wessex Taverns chain of pubs and bars out of administration.
Four days later Holmes and I were again in the train, bound for Winchester to see the race for the Wessex Cup.
Up to the time of the catastrophe he was the first favorite for the Wessex Cup, the betting being three to one on him.
They went to war with the men of Wessex and were defeated by them.
The city of Wintoncester, that fine old city, aforetime capital of Wessex, lay amidst its convex and concave downlands in all the brightness and warmth of a July morning.
A new company headed by former Pubmaster boss John Sands has completed a seven-figure deal to buy the Wessex Taverns chain of pubs and bars out of administration.
Still higher, on their left, the elevation called Bulbarrow or Bealbarrow, well-nigh the highest in South Wessex, swelled into the sky, engirdled by its earthen trenches.
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